INDIAN PYGMY GOOSE or COTTON TEAL 



NETTAPUS COROMANDELIANUS (Gmelin) 

 (Plate 10) 



Synonymy 

 Anas coromandeliana Gmelin, Linne's Systema Naturae, ed. 13, vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 522, 



1788. 

 Nettapas coromandelianus G. R. Gray, List Birds British Mus., vol. 3, p. 129, 1844. 

 Nettopus coromandelianus Blyth, Birds of Burma, p. 165, 1875. 

 Nettapus coromandelicus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1859, p. 150. 

 Nettapus albipennis Gould, Birds of Australia, pt. 6, pi. [17] and text, 1842. 

 Cheniscus coromandelianus albipennis Mathews, Birds of Australia, vol. 4, pt. 1, 



p. 35, pi. 202, 1914. 



Vernacular Names 



Bullia-hans — (Dacca Faridpur, 

 Sylhet) 



English: 



Cotton Teal 



Indian Pygmy Goose 



Goose Teal 



Green-backed Goose Teal 



White-bodied Goose Teal 



Quacky Duck 



Rice Teal 



French: 



Sarcelle de Coromandel 



German: 



Indische Zwergente 



India: 



Girri, Girria, Girja or Gur-gurra 



— (Hindustani) 

 Ghangariel, Ghangani — (Bengali) 



Lerreget-perriget or Merom-dere- 



bet — (Kole) 

 Ade or Adla — (Ratnagiri) 

 Karagat — (Burmese) 



Malay: 



Itik-laut 



Manila: 

 Pa-ti-ki 



Ceylon: 



Rajah-tara 



Singhalese: 

 Mal-saaru 



Javanese: 



Meliwies-batoe 



DESCRIPTION 



Adult Male: Forehead and crown brown, glossy green feathers along the lateral edges; a complete 

 broad but irregular collar of black mixed with green feathers above, encircles the base of the neck; 

 head, neck, under parts and a collar behind the black neck-band, white; flanks and sides of breast very 

 finely freckled with black; under tail-coverts tipped with brownish black; back, scapulars and wing- 

 coverts dark brown with green and purple iridescence; upper tail-coverts white thickly freckled with 

 brown; tail dark brown with greenish gloss; primaries brown carrying a conspicuous white speculum 



