146 CLUCKING TEAL. 



Duck agree fally with Siberian specimens in our 

 museums, witli the known descriptions of Pallas, 

 Brandt, and MiddendorfF, and with those of Temminck 

 and Schlegel in the "Fauna Japonica." In the breeding 

 plumage of the Amur male, the fawn-coloured patches 

 on the cheeks and sides of throat vary in being darker 

 or lighter." 



"In Amur-Lande A. glocitans is much less plentiful 

 than the Common Teal, f Anas crecca,) and it appears 

 later in the month of April: MiddendorfF first saw it 

 in May. I shot a young individual on the 31st. of 

 August, (Sep, 12th.,) 1854, with fully-developed wings. 

 I met with small flocks of young individuals in the 

 late summer of 1856, on the Upper Amur, as far as 

 the Ustj-Strelka rather often. A specimen was brought 

 to me from the upper Dseja on August 16th., (28th.;) 

 it was a dead fully-grown male still in its summer 

 plumage, having been driven down by the stream: it 

 was stiff, but quite fresh." 



Middcndorff, in his "Sibirische Eeise," vol. i, part 

 2, p. 230, gives a long and interesting account of this 

 Teal, from which I extract the following: — "Although 

 the most common species of Duck on the Boganida, 

 (70° north latitude,) it does not nevertheless extend 

 upwards as far as the river Taimyra. They were not 

 observed on the Boganida before the 12th. of June. 

 On the 3rd. of July seven fresh-laid eggs were dis- 

 covered in a nest under a willow bush adjacent to the 

 bank of the river. On the 24th. of July the feathers 

 on the head, on the shoulders, and on the wings of 

 the downy young ones had already commenced making 

 their appearance; but nevertheless on the 4th. of 

 August they were unfledged. On the 28th. of July a 

 male was shot which had already put on the plumage 



