DUCK. 



37-i 



Inhabits Cayenne and Guiana. Said to be the female of the 

 former species. In a dried specimen of the above I observed tin 

 tail feathers to decline over each other, as in the Common Hen. 



133— SILEY TEAL. 



LENGTH eighteen or nineteen inches. Bill longish and black, 

 the end bent downwards ; nostrils rather elevated, and pervious ; 

 irides brown ; round the eyelids a rim of yellow ; crown rufous 

 brown ; the rest of the head and neck buff; breast, belly, and over 

 the thighs pale ferruginous ; back deep bluish ash, the upper half 

 with large and deep waves of pale rufous, or buff, the lower quite 

 plain ; inner half of the wing coverts rufo-ferruginous, the remainder 

 deep ash ; the outer part of the wing and quills black ; upper tail 

 coverts ferruginous ; vent and under tail coverts yellowish, or straw- 

 colour ; tail brown ; legs bluish lead-colour ; claws black. 

 Inhabits the Coast of Coromandel, and there called Siley. 



134.— MADAGASCAR TEAL. 



Anas Madagascariensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 875. Gm. Lin. i. 522. 

 Sarcelle male de Madagascar, Buf. ix. 274. PL enh 770. 

 Madagascar Teal, Gen. Syn. vi. 55G. 



SIZE of our Teal. Bill one inch long, yellow, tip black ; 

 irides yellow ; top of the head to the crown, forepart of the head, 

 and neck, white, passing on the sides behind the eyes, and there 

 ending in a point ; but part of the head and neck dusky, greenish 

 black ; on the middle of this, below the ears, a large oval patch of 

 paler green, bordered all round with a rim of black, and accom- 

 panied with a line of white ; lower part of the neck and breast pale 

 rust, undulated with dusky lines, and passing behind in a collar ; 



