122 THE LARGER WHISTLING TEAL. 
Female.—Length, 19'5 ; expanse, 36°0; wing, 8°75; tail from 
vent, 30; tarsus, 2°3 ; bill from gape, 2°35 ; weight, 1lb, 10 ozs. 
The legs and feet pale leaden lavedner; webs dusky; bill 
dusky leaden, paler at base; irides brown. 
The bills, legs, and feet vary a good deal in shade in both 
sexes ; in some they are more dusky ; in others markedly paler 
and bluer. 
THE PLATE is on the whole fair, but the rufous portions are 
throughout too orange, and should be more of a dull chestnut 
on the belly, and of a warm brown elsewhere. There is never 
the faintest trace of the black lunules, that the abistmisas 
indicated on the sides of the breast. Further I resretmie 
notice that here too there has been a mistake in the drawing of 
the legs. 
BESIDES the two species already referred to, both of which 
as will have been seen, have a very wide distribution, other 
members of this genus occur in various parts of the world. 
First, the species commonly known as D. vagans of Eyton, 
but which is the species [vzde S. F., VI, 488], figured by 
Horsfield under Cuvier’s M.S.S. name arcuata, which name has 
precedence, from Java, the Philippines, Celebes, Timor, and 
throughout the Archipelago to Australia where it occurs at any 
rate as far south as Sydney. WD. eytoni from Australia, D. gutta- 
ta, Miller, from Celebes, Bouru, Gillolo, &c., D. viduata widely 
distributed in Africa and South America, D. autumnalis of 
America, from Demerara to Texas, and ). arborea from the West 
Indies. Very possibly there is another African species, and one 
or two others from elsewhere. The genus is a “ tropicopolitan” 
one, though its range extends here and there a little north and 
south of the Tropics. 7 
