. The Indian ducks and their allies . tant, as it shows that it is both an animal and avegetarian feeder. Most writers call this a shy and wild bird, but my father fE. B. Baker),who knew the bird well, did not consider it to be either a particularly waryor wild bird, though of a very shy retiring disposition. I remember whenI first came out to India, some twenty-five years ago. he had several of thesebirds skins amongst his collection of Maldah bird-skins : but all these havebeen either lost or destroyed, and it is now so long since I last saw themthat I camiot speak with certainty of the vari
. The Indian ducks and their allies . tant, as it shows that it is both an animal and avegetarian feeder. Most writers call this a shy and wild bird, but my father fE. B. Baker),who knew the bird well, did not consider it to be either a particularly waryor wild bird, though of a very shy retiring disposition. I remember whenI first came out to India, some twenty-five years ago. he had several of thesebirds skins amongst his collection of Maldah bird-skins : but all these havebeen either lost or destroyed, and it is now so long since I last saw themthat I camiot speak with certainty of the variations they showed in their]ilumage. Most of these ducks had been shot by him when shooting with the late. AV. Reily and some of the Shillingfords in Maldah and Purneah. At theend of a days slioot, when ])romiscuous firing had l)ecome the order, one ortwo of these ducks would often l)e added to the bag. getting n\) in frontof the line of elephants as they worked through comitry in wliich therewere any small jiools and jhils. .—I ki. NETTAPUS COROMANDELIAKUS. 47 Genus NETTAPUS. Unlike the two last genera, the present one contains four species, thoughof these only one is found in Indian limits. The type of the genus isXettapns aurkus, which is found throughout a great part of South Africaand also in Madagascar. The other two forms, JSf. jndcJiellus and JV. alhl-pennis, are both Australian, the former being obtained in New Guinea andsome other islands. Nettapus can be distinguished from all other genera by the followingcharacteristics being combined in it :— Rather long hind toe, not lobed ; feet pahnated ; neck short ; wing-under 7 inches. (8) NETTAPUS COTTON-TEAL. Nettapus coromandelianus, Jcrdon, B. I. iii, p. 786 ; Butler, Str. Feath. iv, p. 27; Hume, ihid.; Hume cj* Davison, ibid. vi. p. 486; Oates, ibid, vii, p. 52: Cripp>s, ihid. p. 311; Legge, B. of Cey. p. 1066; Bingham, Str. Feath. ix, p. 198; Oates, B. of Brit. Burm. ii, p. 272 ; Hume, 3
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