Order ANSERIFORMES. 
No. 79. 
Family ANAT1DM. 
QUERQUEDULA QUERQUEDULA. 
(HUMERALIS.) 
GARGANEY TEAL. 
(Plate 60.) 
Querquedula querquedula humEralis Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. IV., pt. n., p. 115, Feb. 17th, 
1915. 
Querquedula querquedula Campbell, Emu, Vol. XXIV., p. 146, Oct., 1924. 
Adult male. Crown of head and hind-neck black ; fore-head blackish-brown with mesial shaft- 
stripes of white ; mantle dark olive-brown, fringed with whitish ; shorter scapulars lavender- 
blue, darker on the inner web, the long scapular feathers dark olive-green with a streak of 
silvery-white down the middle ; lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts dark olive-brown, 
fringed with grey ; wing-coverts dark lavender-blue ; speculum glossy green, bordered 
above and below with a broad band of white ; primary quills blacldsh-brown, paler in the 
imier w T eb, tail-feathers dark brown, bordered with w r hitish ; lores and a broad eyebrow of 
white ; sides of neck and cheeks reddish-brown with conspicuous wiiite shaft-streaks ; chin 
and upper throat black, chest and upper breast with equidistant bars of blacldsh-brown 
and isabelline-buff ; lower breast, belly and abdomen white, the latter waved with blackish; 
sides of body with concentric bars of black broadly tipped with grey; under tail-coverts 
white, spotted with black ; axillaries wiiite, bill black, eyes hazel, feet leaden-grey. Total 
length, 358 mm.: culmen 39, wing 190, tail 64, tarsus 29. 
Adult female. Fore-head, crown and head blackish-brown fringed with olive ; back of the neck 
brownish-olive, remainder of upper-parts dark olive-brown, each feather margined with 
dark buff; primaries, quills and tail-feathers dark brownish-olive, paler on the inner web ; 
lores dark brown, streaked with black ; eyebrow^ wiiite ; sides of face, ear-coverts and cheeks 
whitish streaked with blackish-brown ; chin and throat w hite ; sides of neck and fore-neck 
whitish streaked with brownish-black ; chest and breast pale buff with indistinct bars of 
blackish-brown ; abdomen white ; sides of body, flanks, thighs and under tail-coverts 
white with large olive-brown markings ; axillaries white. Bill greenish-grey, eyes brown, 
legs and feet grey. Total length 350 mm.: culmen 39, wing 179, tail 68, tarsus 27. 
Nest. In the neighbourhood of marshes. A depression in the ground, lined with grass and the 
bird’s own down. 
Eggs. Clutch ten to twelve ; ground-colour huffish or creamy-buff. Dimensions 43 to 49 mm. 
by 30 to 33. 
Breedmg-season. April, May and June. 
Incubation-period. 22 to 24 days. 
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