. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . f a darker shade ; back of neck brown, the feathers edgedwith white ; eye-streak faint; speculum dull and indistinct, bordered aboveand below with white; breasts and abdomen greyish white, spotted withbrown. Length.—14-5 to 15 inches, with a wing of from 7 to 7-5. Ilab.—The same as Q. crecca. Not found in as great numbers as Q. crecca, affects the same situations, andis considered excellent for the table. It is chiefly a nocturnal feeder, conceal-ing itself i
. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . f a darker shade ; back of neck brown, the feathers edgedwith white ; eye-streak faint; speculum dull and indistinct, bordered aboveand below with white; breasts and abdomen greyish white, spotted withbrown. Length.—14-5 to 15 inches, with a wing of from 7 to 7-5. Ilab.—The same as Q. crecca. Not found in as great numbers as Q. crecca, affects the same situations, andis considered excellent for the table. It is chiefly a nocturnal feeder, conceal-ing itself in the jheels and dhunds, among the high grass, during the day ;when disturbed it usually returns to the same spot. Hume says that atnights they come in some parts of the country in such crowds into paddy fieldsas to destroy acres of crop at one visit; their food, like Q. crecca, is chieflyvegetable, as tender shoots and leaves of water plants, seeds, bulbs, &c , buton the sea coasts, especially the Sind and Mekran Coast, where they arefrequently found in some numbers, Crustacea, slugs, fry of fish and algoe formtheir Querquedula formosa. The ClucUmg Teal. 233. Querquedula formosa, C7eorgi, Act. Stocki. 1779, t. i.; Schl. J. , Murray, Arif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 694, No. 1397. Querque-dula glocitans {Pall,), Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 808 ; Hume, Game Birds Ind. 225.—The Clucking Teal. ^Male.—Forehead, top of head and occiput rich purple brown, boundedby a narrow white line from the eye; face, cheeks and side of neck fawn25 B 194 ANATID^. colour ; a black streak from below the eye meeting a black patch on the throat;nape and hind neck glossy green, ending in a black stripe down the back ofthe neck, separated from the fawn colour of the sides of the neck by a narrowwhite line ; upper plumage finely marbled grey, edged with rufous on theback; upper wing coverts hair brown, the median coverts the same, with anedging of rufous, forming the anterior margin of the s
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