The largest duck is nearly the size of a wild goose, and has a red, fatty protuberance about the beak very similar to a muscovy.

The teal are the fattest and most delicious birds that I have ever tasted.

Cooked in Soyer's magic stove, with a little butter, cayenne pepper, a squeeze of lime juice, a pinch of salt, and a spoonful of Lea and Perrins' Worcester sauce (which, by the by, is the best in the world for a hot climate), and there is no bird like a Ceylon teal.

They are very numerous, and I have seen them in flocks of some thousands on the salt-water lakes on the eastern coast, where they are seldom or ever disturbed.

Nevertheless, they are tolerably wary, which, of course, increases the sport of shooting them.
I have often thought what a paradise these lakes would have made for the veteran Colonel Hawker with his punt gun.