370 DUCK. 



dusky white ; breast buff; belly pale rufous, the ends of the feathers 

 chestnut ; under tail coverts white ; the back brown, the feathers 

 edged with paler brown; wings deep ash, inclining to lead-colour ; 

 upper wing coverts fine rich chestnut; lower part of the back and 

 rump like the wing coverts ; under wing coverts and tail brown ; 

 legs black. 



A specimen of this was in the Museum of Mr. Bullock, but 

 from whence it came uncertain. 



128— GREY-SHOULDERED TEAL. 



LENGTH thirteen inches. Bill one inch and three quarters, 

 blue black ; head and neck white, with slender dusky streaks; down 

 the middle of the crown a dark brown streak ; between the bill and 

 eye one of the same, passing through the eye, and finishing in a 

 point, near an inch beyond it ; breast rufous white, marked with 

 dusky crescents ; below this paler, with crescents and blotches, but 

 more obscure ; back deep ash brown ; wing coverts pale blue grey ; 

 on the middle of the wing a speculum of green, bounded above and 

 below with white, broadest on the upper part ; quills deep ash- 

 brown ; tail pale, the feathers running to a point ; legs pale blue grey. 



One, said to be the female, is very similar, but the brown streak 

 on the head obscure ; wing coverts very pale, greyish ash ; specu- 

 lum the same, not green, but the feathers deeply margined with pale 

 grey ; the rump in both is pale, blotched with brown ; tail darker 

 than in the male. 



Inhabits India. Probably related to our Common Teal. 



129.-BILIBI TEAL. 



Bilibi Teal, Lin. Trans, xiii. 331. 



LENGTH twelve or fourteen inches. Crown of the head dark 

 brown ; neck cinereous, passing into ferruginous on the breast and 



