228 THE CLUCKING OR BAIKAL TEAL. 
And Taczanowski says of a setting of eggs sent by Dybowski 
from Darasun :—‘‘ They are somewhat larger than those of the 
Garganey ; their colour is a pale greyish green, very like that of 
the eggs of the Mallard. They vary from about 1°8 to 1’g in 
length, and from about 1‘3 to 1°4 in breadth.” 
MY SOLITARY Indian specimen, a male obtained by Mr. Chill, 
measures in the skin :— 
Length, 15°8 ;. wing, 8°15 ; tail, 3°90; tarsus, 1°3- ‘billaeieeae 
1-5, LOM Cape we: 
No reliable dimensions are on record. Dresser says:— 
“ Male.—Length, 15°5; culmen, 1°5; wing, 85; faeeeeee 
tarsus, 1°0.” 
“ Female. Length, 15:0; culmen, 1°45 ; wing, 7°3 ; taileee oe 
tarsus, 0'9” 
But these are of course taken from skins. How he has 
measured the tarsus it is impossible to say ; in a fine male from 
Cifinathisis 1-47 in a female iz: ‘ 
Temminck and Schlegel give the following :—Length, 15°35 ; 
wing, 85; tail, 3°57; bill at front, 1:62; (in one Chinese male it 
is, 1-6, .insa-femiale, 1753), <- fo7s7s. 1-25. 
Neither Schrenk, Radde nor Middendorff give any dimensions. 
Middendorff says that “the billis a dusky bluish brown; the 
feet clear grey blue, darker on the webs.” Schrenk tells us that in 
a freshly killed young male “the bill was a dusky greenish black 
at the base, but lighter coloured, a bluish grey, on the lower 
mandible and the margin of the upper one; the legs and feet 
greenish grey, blackish on the joints, and almost quite black 
on the webs.” 
Lastly, Swinhoe remarks (/dzs, 1867):—A male Anas glocitans 
died inthe aviary of a friend. Its iris was chestnut brown ; 
bill deep liver brown ; legs and toes pale bluish grey, tinged 
with brown at the joints, and with deeper brown on the webs 
and nails.” 
THE PLATE is on the whole very good, but it must be noted 
that in fuller-plumaged males the crown is entirely black. 
not mottled asin the specimen figured. In our Indian speci- 
men the yellow of the face is rather more buffy, and each 
feather is very narrowly fringed at the tip with brown, thus 
somewhat obscuring the brightness of the face patches. 
In the picture of the female, otherwise very good, there 
is, I think, to judge from my Chinese birds, one mistake—the 
anterior of the wing bands should be rufous buff and not white. 
The female might perhaps be mistaken for that of Querguedula 
crecca, but it has a much broader bill. In the female of the 
Common Teal the upper mandible, at its widest point near the 
tip, does not exceed 0°55; in some specimens it is not above 
3. 
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