. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . ,, No. 1396. Anas circia, Linn., i. p. 204 ; Blylh, B. Burm., p. 166 ; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 1080.—TheGarganey Querquedula circia. The Garganey or Blue-winged Teal. Male.—Forehead purplish brown, finely streaked with white ; crown of thehead, occiput, nape and a line half way down the back of the neck dark umberor blackish brown, bounded on each side by a white superciliary streak,which extends to the sides of the neck ; face, sides of the nec
. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . ,, No. 1396. Anas circia, Linn., i. p. 204 ; Blylh, B. Burm., p. 166 ; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 1080.—TheGarganey Querquedula circia. The Garganey or Blue-winged Teal. Male.—Forehead purplish brown, finely streaked with white ; crown of thehead, occiput, nape and a line half way down the back of the neck dark umberor blackish brown, bounded on each side by a white superciliary streak,which extends to the sides of the neck ; face, sides of the neck, cheeks, throatand neck chestnut brown, the feathers with white mesial streaks ; chin black;breast and upper abdomen yellowish brown, tinged in some specimens withferruginous, and with broad crescentic dark brown markings ; lower abdomenwhite or yellowish white, with, in some specimens, transverse, dusky striajbehind ; flanks with transverse undulations of black and white ; axillarieswhite with black bases ; back brownish black, the feathers edged with yellow-ish brown ; primaries dark brown on their outer webs and tips, pale woodbrown on their inner webs, in some specimens narrowly edged with whitish;wing spot on outer web of secondaries dull green,
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