55* 



D U C Ko 



Female. 

 Place. 



The female is nearly coloured as the male, but the colours lefs- 

 diftinft, and duller : the white on the breaft waved with brown* 

 Inhabits Egypt. 



94. 



MADAGASCAR 



T. 



Desce iftion. 



P 



LACE. 



La Sarcelle nfSle de Madagafcaiv Buf. Oif. ix. p. 274.— PA Eul. 770. 



I ZE of the Teal: length about twelve inches. Bill an inch: 

 long, yellow ; tip black : irides yellow : top of the head as", 

 far as the crown, fore parts of the head, and neck, white, palling 

 on the fides behind the eyes, and ending there in a point ; but 

 part of the head and neck dark dufky greenilh black : on the 

 middle of this, below the ears, an oval patch of paler green : 

 lower part of the neck and breaft pale ruft-colour, undulated 

 with dufky lines, and palling behind in a collar : upper part of 

 the body, wings, and tail* very dark green : fides clouded with 

 ferruginous: middle of belly and vent white : quills dufky : on. 

 the wings a ftreak of white : legs dulky. 



Inhabits Madagafcar. 



95- 



COROMANDEL 



T. 



Description, ■*• 



La Sarcelle de Coromandel, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 274. — PI. Ehl. 949, 950^ 

 fr J^ HIS fpecies is lefs by one fourth than the Garganey. Bill 



dufky : top of the head black ■, the reft of it and the neck 

 white, fpeckled with dufky black : the lower part of the neck 

 ftriated acrofs with fine lines of the fame : the upper parts of the 

 body and wings are brown, with a green and reddifti glofs : 

 breaft and belly white : fides of the vent inclining to ferrugi- 

 nous : legs black. 



The 



