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QUERQUEDULA CRECCA. THE EUROPEAN 

 TEAL. 



COMMON TEAL. GREEN-WINGED TEAL. 



Fig. 62. 



Anas Crecca. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 204. 



Anas Crecca. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 872. 



Common Teal. Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Anas Crecca. Flem. Brit. Anim. 125. 



Anas Crecca. Temm. Man. d'Orn. II. 846. 



Anas Crecca. Teah Jenyns, Brit. Vert. Anim. 235. 



Common Teal. Querquedula Crecca. Selby, Illuatr. II. 315. 



Q,uerquedula Crecca. Bonap. Comp. List. 57. 



Male with the bill an inch and a half long, seven-twelfths 

 broad toward the end, black ; scapulars and inner secondaries 

 elongated and tapering ; tail feathers acuminate ; a longi- 

 tudinal ridge of narroio decurved feathers on the head and 

 nape ; head and upper-neck chestnut-broicn, tcith a green patch 

 behind the eye, margined beneath with black and white, upper 

 parts and sides finely undulated with dusky and white ; sca- 

 pulars partly grey, yellowish-white, and black; speculum black 

 externally, green internally, edged with black ; tips of secon- 

 dary coverts yellowish-white ; fore-neck and part of breast 

 yellowish-white, icith black spots, the rest of the breast white ; 

 abdomen undulated ; under the tail a black and two cream- 

 coloured patches. 



