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Birds of Celebes: Anatidae. 
coverts; the longer ones, axillaries and base of remiges white ((^? — Lake Limhotto, 
Jan. 1876: van Musschenbroek — 0 5273). 
Female. Similar to the specimen described above, but with hardly any gloss on the speculum, 
jugulum and breast deeper rufous, udth dark middles to the feathers on the former 
region and dusky bars on the breast ( Q , Lake Limbotto, July, 1871: Meyer — C 859). 
Male in breeding plumage. Differs in having the face, throat and sides of neck brown, with 
white shaft-streaks; a broad white stripe from above eye to half-way down the 
hind neck; breast pale raw umber, with U-shaped bars of black, forming into 
straighten bars on lower breast; chin black; scapulars black, each with a stripe 
down the middle white or buff (q^, Saxony — Nr. 10505). 
Measurements (3 examples from Celebes). "Wing 188 — 193 mm; tail c. 75; tarsus c. 29; 
middle toe and claw c. 41 ; exposed culmen 35 — 38. 
Young. The young in down is dark brown above, pale brown below; a buff streak above 
the eye, a dark streak through it. 
Eggs and nest. 8 to 10 eggs, oval, rich creamy yellow: 47.5 X 36.8 mm. The bird nests 
on the ground, in herbage or rushes, using rushes and dry grass, with its own down 
for a lining (Sharpe & Dresser III). 
Distribution. “Palaearctic Negion, wintering in Northern Africa as far south as Shoa and 
Somali-land, in Palestine, India with Ceylon, in Burmah, China, Japan, Philiijpines, 
Borneo, Java, Celebes, Ternatc and Ceram” (Salvador! 21). Philippines — (Leyden 
Mus. a 3,, Luzon (Steere 77); N. W. Borneo (Hose 21), Labuan (Lempriere 15, 
Everett 27); Sumatra (fide Vorderman 74); Java (S. Miiller a 3, Vorderman 72); 
Celebes — Lake Limbotto (Rosenberg a 3, a 5, Meyer 9, Riedel b 2, 73, Eaber 
and V. Musschenbroek in Dresden Mus.), ? Manado (in British Mus.); Temate 
(Rosenberg a 3); Ceram (Wallace 27). 
The Garganey is, most likely, simply a winter visitor to Celebes, though 
some individuals remain there during the summer, as is shown by the fact that 
Meyer got it at Limbotto in July, 1871, while W. Blasius records an example 
obtained by Hie del in the summer dress of the male. Up to the present the 
Lake of Limbotto is the only locality in Celebes positively known for this Duck; 
here it is said by Rosenberg and Meyer to be rather scarce. The nearest 
.part of Asia, where it is known to nest, seems to be S. E. Mongolia; where it 
was found breeding by Prjevalsky (8, a 7). It has indeed been recorded as 
breeding in India, but more evidence thereof is wanting (16). In South-east 
Mongolia it arrives about the middle of April. In South China it is knowm as a 
bird of passage; Mr. De La Touche reports it “abundant at Foochow from the 
end of February to the late spring. They pass again towards the middle of 
September, but not in such numbers. This Teal also passes Swatow in spring 
and autumn.” It is recorded as a winter visitor to India, Ceylon, Burmah, 
Japan, by Hume, Legge, Oates, and Seebohm (16, h 3, 11, b4). 
In the Catalogue of the Ducks, Salvador! separates Querquedula from 
Nettion somewhat widely, but it is not very easy to point to structural charac- 
ters wherein the two forms differ. The chief difference seems to lie in the 
wing: the secondaries of Querquedula are shorter than in Nettion — about one- 
third shorter, as measured from the tips of the greater coverts, forming a 
