The duck's head is deep brown, and has two pale-brown stripes on each side, like the head of the Rouen duck, running from the bill to a point behind the eyes. Her bill is of a brownish-orange color, and her eyes are dark hazel or brown. The neck is light brown, penciled with darker brown; breast, dark brown, penciled with lighter brown; back, light brown, marked with green, and the under parts and sides of body are grayish brown, each feather distinctly penciled with rich dark brown. The plumage of wing is grayish brown, mixed with green, and is crossed by a broad bar of rich purple edged with white; the primaries are brown. The tail feathers are of a light-brown color, with distinct, broad, wavy penciling of dark greenish brown; tail coverts are brown, with broad penciling of dark brown or greenish brown; thighs are dark brown; shanks, toes, and webs are orange brown. The White Gall is pure white in plumage throughout, and feathers of any other color will disqualify it. It is in every respect like the Gray Call except in plumage, in the color of the eyes, which are a gray or blue, and the color of the shanks, which are a bright orange. =Weight.=--No standard weight is given for Call ducks. BLACK EAST INDIAN DUCKS. =History.=--Another standard breed of ducks which is hardly considered a rival of the Pekin, Aylesbury, Cayuga, or Rouen, is the Black East Indian. This duck bears the same relation to those just named as does the bantam to the larger varieties of chickens. The Black East Indian and the Call ducks are the bantam breeds of ducks, being bred more for their smallness of size than for their profitableness. The same devices are resorted to in breeding them as were mentioned for breeding the Call ducks. =Description.=--The East Indian duck is hardy, and would, if carefully bred from the largest and best specimens, grow to a fairly good size, and be profitable to keep. In weight they seldom grow larger than 2 to 2½, pounds each. The close inbreeding to which they have been subjected has been detrimental to their egg production, while those strains which have not been so closely bred have proved very prolific. It may be said in favor of these ducks, that if allowed to increase in size, which they will readily do under favorable circumstances, they would prove very profitable to those who prefer keeping small-sized birds to the larger ones.