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Title: Indian sporting birds
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Finn, Frank, 1868-1932 Hume, Allan Octavian, 1829-1912 Marshall, Charles Henry Tilson, 1841-
Subjects: Birds -- India Game and game-birds -- India
Publisher: London : Francis Edwards
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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the bird breeds is made onthe ground among grass or other cover near small pieces ofwater, and is provided with a rather scanty lining of down.About eight is the usual number of eggs laid; they are yellowish-white, like those of the common teal, and of the same size. Theducklings also are much like miniature young mallard. The Bengali names of the garganey are Gangroih andGirria ; in Hindustani it is called Kliaira and Patari as wellas Chaitioa. Clucking Teal. * Nettuim formosum. The head alone is quite enough to identify the drake of thisrare species ; the throat and crown are black, the face buff, witha black line down from each eye as if the bird had been cryingtears of ink, and a crescent of glittering green curving roundat the back. There is a vertical white bar on each side of thepinkish, black-spotted breast, separating it from the pencilledblue-grey flanks, and the shoulders are decked with long hacklesstreaked with black, buff, and chestnut. * Querquedula c^locitans on plate.
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<; O < Q uJ crlj CLUCKIiNG TEAL 19 The female is much hke that of the common teal, but islarger, with much shorter bill in proportion, and a very distinctwhite patch at its base; moreover, the wing bar is mostly blackand white, with only a narrow streak of green, and this runningvertically parallel with the white border, not longitudinally.The male in undress differs from her in having the lower backplain brown as in the full plumage, not mottled. For some timeafter he loses this eclipse dress in the autumn his beautifulhead markings are much obscured by brown edgings to thefeathers, although the strange pattern is quite recognizable. This teal is not only larger than the common and garganeyteals, longer-tailed and shorter-billed, but stands much higheron the legs, and runs very actively. The loud clucking note ofthe drake, which sounds like mok-mok, is most characteristic,and the bird can never hold his tongue for long. lie displaysin a curious way, generally on land so far as

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