save for some white speckling on the breast and back. The female looks like a small common gadwall female; the primary wing coverts were not patterned black, and the inner web of the secondary remiges was grey instead of white.

Measurements are: wing, 19.9 cm; bill, 3.7 cm; tarsus 3.6 cm. This means the birds were the size of a Cape teal or a garganey,