Order ANSEBIF0RME8 
No. 265. 
Family ANATIDM. 
QUERQUEDULA QUERQUEDULA HUMERALIS. 
EASTERN GARGANEY TEAL. 
Anas (querqubditla) humeealis Muller, Verb. Nat. Gesch. Land en Volkenk, p. 159, 
1842 ; JavE. 
Querquedula circia Campbell, Viet. Nat., Vol. XV., p. 151, 1899 ; id., Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, Vol. II., p. 1042, 1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. 114, 1906. 
Querquedula querquedula Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 36, 1908. 
Querquedula querquedula humeralis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 238, 1912 ; id., 
List Birds Austr., p. 92, 1913. 
Distribution. India southwards to Java ; Australia (accidental). 
Adult male. Crown of head dark brown narrowly edged with chestnut, fore-part of the 
head minutely streaked with white, becoming chocolate-brown on the fore-head ; 
sides of the face, sides of neck, and fore-neck chocolate-brown with minute white 
shaft lines ; chin dark brown ; entire breast buffy-white barred with brown ; 
sides of the body dusky brown barred with white ; ornamental flank feathers white 
narrowly barred with black, the long ones broadly tipped with lead-grey ; upper 
abdomen white, lower abdomen and vent faintly and narrowly barred with grey ; 
under tail-coverts also white with ovate brown spots ; axillaries and inner under 
wing-coverts pure white ; lesser under wing-coverts pale ash-grey ; a broad white 
Hne along the sides of the crown on to the sides of the nape which almost meets 
on the hind-neck ; mantle and back dark brown with paler brown edges to the 
feathers and which become blue-grey on the rump ; outer scapulars pale grey, 
inner ones glossy green with white shaft streaks ; lesser wing-coverts uniform 
pale grey ; greater upper wing-coverts broadly tipped with white ; bastard-wing 
pale brown ; primary-coverts also pale brown with whitish margins to the outer 
webs ; primary-quiUs dark brown with white shafts and pale inner webs ; second- 
aries pale brown with metalhc green on the outer webs and white tips which form 
wing-bars, the inner secondaries dark brown with pale edges ; upper tail-cf^verts 
dark brown with whitish edges to the feathers. Bill black ; iris hazel ; feet 
brownish. Total length 358 mm. ; culmen 39, wing 190, tail 64, tarsus 31. 
Adult female. Differs from the adult male chiefly by the absence of the chocolate-brown 
on the sides of the face and fore-neck, the dark brown spot on the chin, this part 
being white, the ornamental feathers on the scapulars and the fine barring on the 
lower abdomen. Bill blackish-brown tinged with green ; iris brown ; feet dull 
plumbeous. Total length 325 mm. ; culmen 35, wing 147, tail 62, tarsus 30. 
Immature male. Is similar in many respects to the adult female but more boldly marked 
and may be distinguished by the indication of barring on the abdomen, the pale 
grey of the upper wing-coverts and the wing speculum. 
Another specimen in similar plumage, to the one cited above, shows an approach of 
dark feathers on the chin. 
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