Co6 



TEAL, 



Class II. 



290. 



TtAL, 



De 



SCRIF 



Qucrqucilula. Ge/ker av. 106. Anas Crc a. Lin. Jy/I. 204. 

 Garganei. Aid,-, av. HI. 90. Arta, Kraecka. Faun. Suec. 



Jl'il. cm. 377. 



Raii fyn. av, 147. 



La petite Sarcelle. BriJJon av. 



V 1. 436. /#/>. 40. fig. 1. 

 Rothantl, Pfeiffantl. Krarn. 



Splcgcl-Entlein. Frifib, II. 

 174. 



.#• 129. 

 Cimbris Atteling-And. Nor- 



vegis Heftelort-And. Davis 



Communiter Krik-And. 



Brunnich, 82, 83 

 Br. Zool. 158. add, plates. 



'T^HE Teal weighs about twelve ounces : the 

 •* length is fourteen inches ; the breadth twen- 

 ty-three: the weight of a drake twelve ounces ; of 

 a duck nine : the bill black : the head, and up- 

 per part of the neck are of a deep bay : from, the 

 bill to the hind part of the head is a broad bar of 

 gloffy changeable green, bounded on the lower 

 fide by a narrow white line : the lower part of the 

 neck, the beginning of the back, and the fides un- 

 der the wings, are elegantly marked with waved 

 lines of black and white. 



The bread and belly are of a dirty white ; the 

 firft beautifully fpotted with black : the vent black : 

 the tail fharp pointed, and dufky : the coverts of 

 the wings brown : the greater quil-feathers dufky ; 

 the exterior webs of the lefler marked with a glofTy 

 green fpot ; above that another of black, and the 

 tips white: the irides whitifh; the legs dufky. 

 The female is of a brownifh afh color, fpotted 



with 



