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of a deep lead color ; the crown of the head is 

 dufky, marked with oblong ftreaks •, on the chin 

 is a large black fpot •, from the corner of each 

 eye is a long white line, that points to the back of 

 the neck : the cheeks, the upper part of the neck, 

 are of a pale purple, marked with minute oblong 

 lines of white, pointing downwards ; the bread is 

 of a light brown, marked with femicircular bars 

 of black: the belly is white; the lower part and 

 vent varied with fpecks, the bars of a dufky hue ; 

 the coverts of the wings are grey ; but the low- 

 eft are tipt with white; the firfl quil-feathers are 

 afh colored ; the exterior webs of thofe in the mid- 

 dle green ; the fcapulars are long and narrow, and 

 elegantly ftriped with white, am color, and black •, 

 the tail dufky : the legs lead color. 



The female has an obfcure white mark over the Female. 

 eye-, the reft of the plumage is of a brownifh a(h 

 color, not unlike the hen teal, but the wing wants 

 the green fpot, which fufficiently diftinguifhes thefe 

 birds. 



In many places thefe birds are called the Simmer 

 Teal 



fays, the head and neck are brown, fpotted with triangu- 

 lar black marks : the body, wings, and tail dufky, edged 

 with a paler color : in the wings is a double line of white : 

 belly white : bill and legs blue. We fufpecl it to be a young 

 bird of this fpecies, but wait for further information before 

 we can determine it. 



Querquedula. 



