FULVOUS TREE DUCK 



DENDROCYGNA BICOLOR (Vieillot) 



(Plate 13, downy young; Plate 12, adult) 



Synonymy 

 Anas fulva Gmelin, Linne's Systema Naturae, ed. 13, vol. 1, pt. l,p. 530, 1788 (not 



Anas fulva Meuschen, 1787). 

 Anas bicolor Vieillot, Nouvelle Diet, des Sci. Nat., vol. 5, p. 136, 1816. 

 Dendrocygna fulva Hartlaub, Syst. Verzeichn. Ges. Mus., p. 118, 1844. 

 Dendrocygna arcuata G. R. Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 3, p. 131, 1844 {nee 



Cuvier). 

 Dendrocygna major Jerdon, Madras Journ., vol. 12, p. 218, 1840. 

 Dendrocygna bicolor helva Wetmore and Peters, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 35, 



p. 42, 1922. 



Vernacular Names 



English: 



Fulvous or Fulvous-bellied Tree 



Duck 

 Larger or Greater Whistling Teal 

 Brown Tree Duck 

 Brown Vicissi 

 Yellow-bellied Fiddler 

 Rufous Duck 

 Mexican Duck 

 Squealer 

 Spanish Cavalier 

 Long-legged Duck 



French: 



Millouin du Mexique 



German: 



Madagassische Baumente 

 Gelbe Baumente 

 Rostgelbliche Ente 



Spanish: 



Chiquiote 

 Algarabia 



Pat silvon or Silbon 

 Pato amarillo 

 Yaguasa — (Venezuela) 



Mexican: 



Tziquiotl 



Trinidad: 



Ouikiki ailes rouges 



Portuguese: 



Marreca puea (Brazil) ; also Mar- 

 reca peba 



Dutch: 



Geelachtige Boomende 



India: 



Murghabi — (Lower Bengal) 

 Badak — (Deccan) 

 Silli — (Hindustani) ) 

 Sisalee — (Burmese) J 



Madagascar: 

 Tahia 

 Etsoa 



