222: THE GARGANEY OR BLUE-WINGED TEAL; 
29th of April 1865, and the latest, containing seven eggs, on the 
21st of May 1864. The largest number (thirteen) in one nest 
was taken on the 10th of May 1867, and again on the 8th of 
May 1868. A female with ten young in down was captured on 
the 25th of June. In Jutland it is generally found breeding 
earlier than the Common Teal.” 
The eggs are barely separable, it is said, from those of the 
Common Teal, but have perhaps a more yellow creamy tinge. 
Dresser says that eggs in his collection average 1°87 in length 
by 1°35 in breadth. 
THE FOLLOWING is a 7ésumé of the measurements, &c., of a 
great number of adults; the birds of the year are considerably 
smaller. 
Males —Lenegth, 15°9 to 16°25; expanse, 25°0 to 27°25; 
wing, 74 to 31 ;. tail from vent, 3:3 to 3°35 tarsus, IO) tases 
bill from gape, 1°75 to 1°92; weight, 10 ozs. to 1 lb. (Commonly 
about 13 02s.) 
Females.—Length, 14°8 to 155; expanse, 23'0 to 25'5; wing, 
7Q to 7°5 ; tail from vent, 2:0 to 3:5 ; tarsus, 1.0 to iisy em 
from gape, 1°7 to 1°85 ; weight, 9 ozs. to 14°75 ozs. (commonly 
about 12 ozs.) 
In the adult male the bill is normally blackish above, brown- 
ish on the lower mandible, except at the tip, often reddish 
brown at the gape. In some females the bill is similar, in some, 
apparently adult, it is blackish plumbeous above, dull plumbeous 
below. In the young itis horny brown, tinged with greenish 
plumbeous. 
The legs and feet are grey, pale greenish brown, grey with an 
olive shade, grey slate colour, purplish slate colour, bluish, and, in 
the young, pale bluish or dirty bluish green, in all cases the webs 
being more or less dusky, and the claws darker still. The irides 
are brown, at times pale, at times hazel or reddish. 
THE PLATE, which is compiled from some of Mr. Hodgson’s 
drawings, is, on the whole, extremely good. Only the side of the 
head in the male is somewhat too pink; it should be some- 
what browner, a sort of nutmeg brown. The other bird in the 
foregound is a not fully adult female—in the old female the 
white tippings to the secondaries and their greater coverts 
become almost as broad and conspicuous asin the male, forming 
a double white wing-bar as in his case, and the outer webs of 
the secondaries get more or less suffused with a dull metallic 
green, mimicking the emerald speculum of the male. The figure 
in the background is that of the male in the eclipse stage, 
assumed towards the close of the breeding season ; but it would 
do perfectly for the adult female (though this is often greyer 
and less fulvous as a whole) if the wing-coverts were made 
