. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . t-streaks ;breast pale brownish rufous, with dusky brown spots; back dusky brown, theedges and tips of the feathers paler and rufous white; lesser wing covertstinned with pale blue; speculum green, and a white bar across the wingas in the male. Hah.—Sind, Belochistan, Persia, Afghanistan, Nepaul, Cashmere, EasternTurkestan, Punjab, N-W. Provinces and Oudh, Bengal, Central India,Rajputana, Kutch, Guzerat, Concan, Deccan, South India, and Ceylon. Winter visitor
. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . t-streaks ;breast pale brownish rufous, with dusky brown spots; back dusky brown, theedges and tips of the feathers paler and rufous white; lesser wing covertstinned with pale blue; speculum green, and a white bar across the wingas in the male. Hah.—Sind, Belochistan, Persia, Afghanistan, Nepaul, Cashmere, EasternTurkestan, Punjab, N-W. Provinces and Oudh, Bengal, Central India,Rajputana, Kutch, Guzerat, Concan, Deccan, South India, and Ceylon. Winter visitors to India, affecting all the lakes, marshes, ponds, &c., feed-ino- on -worms, larvce, tadpoles, seeds, and young shoots of aquatic are not naturally shy, as in village ponds they are frequently seen dab-bling about, or standing in the shallow edge of ponds, while the inhabitantsare drawing water or bathing. Gen. Anas, Linn. Bill slightly longer than the head, of nearly uniform width throughout;tertials long and pointed ; tail wedge-shaped; nostrils near the base of the bill ;middle tail feather curled. ANAS. 183. Anas boscas. The Mallard. 224. Anas boscas {Linn.),Bodd. P. E. pp. 776, 777; Gould, B. 361 ; Jerd., B. Iml. iii. p. 798/ Str. F. i. p. 261; iv.^p. igg; Murray,IIadbLZooL,&c.,Sind,;!d., Verf. Zool. Sind, pp. 291, 2g2; Humeand Marsh., Game Birds hid. p. 151 ; Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 684,No. 1387. {\^er7i. Niroji, Sind).—The Mallard. J/fl/^.—Head and upper half of neck rich dark metallic glossy green, suc-ceeded by a white ring; lower down on the back of the neck greyish chestnutbrown, with fine transverse greyish waved lines ; back above or mantle chest-nut brown, the feathers margined slightly paler; scapulars greyish white, thefeathers finely marked with transverse wavy brown lines, the outermost oneschestnut; rump and upper tail coverts blackish green, the sides of the formergreyish white, finely vermiculated with brownish; prim
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