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QUERQUEDULA STEEPERA. THE GADWALL 

 TEAL. 



GADWALL. GREY. 



Anas Strepera. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 200. 



Anas Strepera. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 859. 



Gadwall. Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Canard Chipeau ou Rideune. Anas Strepera. Temm. Man. d'Om. II. 837. 



Common Gadwall. Chauliodus Strepera. Selh. Illustr. II. 301. 



Anas Strepera. Gadwall. Jen. Brit. Vert. Anim. 231. 



Chaulelasmus Strepera. Bonap. Comp. List, 56. 



Male with the bill an inch and ten-twelfths long, eight- 

 twelfths broad toivard the end, black ; scapulars and inner 

 secondaries elongated and acuminate ; middle tail-feathers 

 pointed, but not much longer than the rest ; tipper part of the 

 head and nape dusky, with small reddish-brown markings ; 

 loiver neck all round, and part of the back, dusky, with semi- 

 circular ivhite lines ; middle of the back, scapulars, and sides, 

 finely undulated ivith dusky-grey and reddish-white ; smaller 

 wing-coverts grey, barred with pale reddish ; middle coverts 

 deep chestnut- red ; speculum black and white; hind pi art of 

 back and tail-coverts bluish-black ; tail grey. Female with 

 the scapulars, inner secondaries, and tail-coverts less elongated ; 

 the upper part of the head dusky, a lightish streak over the 

 eye ; the upper parts blackish-brown, the feathers edged with 

 reddish ; the lower parts light reddish, marked tvith oblong 

 spots of greyish-brown. 



Male in Winter. — The " Gadwall " so closely resembles 

 the " Pintail " in size, proportions, and plumage, that, I 

 thinly, there can be little doubt as to its generic identity, 

 although it differs in having the laminse of the upper man- 

 dible considerably projecting, and the middle tail-feathers 



