THE MARBLED TEAL. 241 
THE PLATE, otherwise very fair, ignores the blue grey outer 
webs (becoming nearly white towards their tips,) of the earlier 
primaries. There is rather too fulvous a tinge on the head and 
back of the neck in both birds. The dark eye-patch is scarcely 
sufficiently brought out, and the colouring of bill, legs,and feet, 
though approximate, is not quite correct. The throat is always 
marked like the cheeks; it is never unmarked as might be 
supposed from the plate. 
There is no material difference in the plumage of the sexes, 
but the female is smaller, and has the eye-patch, and generally 
all the markings and tints, a trifle duller and less conspicuous. 
Captain Butler’s young female, already referred to, is, above, 
extremely like the adult, except that the pale markings are 
smaller and less conspicuous, the whole upper surface being 
rather lighter, but the whole of the abdomen, lower tail-coverts, 
&c., are still tipped with the fluffy fulvous nestling down. 
One fine adult has the lower surface tinged with ferruginous ; 
but this appears to be far less common in this species than in 
many others. 
