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and webs blacky the sides of the tarsus and toes dusky yellow ; claws horny 
brown. In the winter the upper mandible is brownish and the lower 
yellowish. 
In the female the bill is brown above, yellowish below ; the iris is brown, 
and the legs and toes greenish yellow. 
Length 13 inches, tail 3, wing 6*5, tarsus 1, bill from gape I'l. The 
female is a trifle smaller. 
The Cotton Teal Goose is very common and generally distributed over 
the Province, except, perhaps, in Tenasserim, where Mr. Davison did not 
meet with it south of Tavoy. 
It occurs over a considerable portion of India and Ceylon, Southern 
China, Cochin China, the Malay peninsula, and is even said to occur in 
J ava and the Philippine Islands . It is pretty certain also to be found in 
the Indo-Burmese countries. 
This little Goose is the best-known of all the Burmese game birds, being 
found, whether singly or in flocks, in all swamps, marshes, inundated 
paddy-fields, ponds and even roadside ditches. It is very tame, except 
when associating with Ducks, at which times it partakes of their shy 
nature. It dives well ; and wounded birds generally manage to escape by 
going under and rising again in dense herbage. Its note is very peculiar, 
and uttered only when flying. It breeds in the holes of trees ; and I 
found a nest with ten eggs in September, near Kyeikpadein, in a mango 
tree, about thirty feet from the ground . 
Subfamily ANATIN^. 
Genus DENDEOCYGNA, Swains. 
636. DENDEOCYGNA JAVANICA. 
THE LESSER WHISTLING TEAL. 
Anas javanica, Horsf. Trans. Linn. &oc. xiii, p. 199. Mareca awsuree, Si/kes, 
P. Z. S. 1832, p. 168. Dendrocygna awsuree, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 789. Den- 
drocygna arcuata (Cuv.), apud Hume, Nests and JEggs, p. 639 j Salvad. Ucc. 
Born. p. 862 ; Anders. Ibis, 1874, p. 222 ; £1. B. Burm. p. 165 j Wardlaw Ramsay, 
Ibis, 1877, p. 472 ; Oates, S. F. v. p. 169. Dendrocygna javanica, Hume ^• 
Dav. S. F. vi. p. 486 ; Crij^ps, S. F. vii. p. 311 Hume, S. F. viii. p. 114 ; Legge, 
Birds Ceylon, p. 1069 ; Hume 8f Marsh. Game Birds, ill. p. 109, pi. ; Bingham, 
S. F. ix. p. 198; Parker, S. F. ix. p. 486; Oates, S. F. x. p. 245; Kelham, Ibis ^ 
1882, p. 197. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead^ crown and nape fulvous- 
brown ; sides of the head^ chin^ throat and neck pale yellowish brown^ 
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