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neck dark-brown, with small white lines. The back dark- 

 brown, the feathers edged with light-brown ; scapulars black, 

 with a medial white stripe ; wing-coverts light bluish-grey ; 

 primaries brownish-black ; speculum dark bluish-green, 

 margined externally and internally with white ; inner secon- 

 daries dusky, edged with white. The lower neck and part 

 of the breast dark-brown, with paler crescentic markings ; 

 the lower parts white, but the sides undulated with black 

 lines, and having two broad bands behind ; the lower tail- 

 coverts mottled, the feathers being black, with white margins. 

 Length to end of tail 16 inches ; extent of wings 26 ; wing 

 from flexure 7-L§- ; tail S^ ; bill along the ridge 1^, along 

 the edge of lower mandible l-fV, its breadth near the end ^ ; 

 tarsus 1^; hind toe -^, its claw -^; third toe 1^, its 

 claw -j^. 



Female. — The female is considerably smaller. The head 

 brown, spotted with dusky ; a brownish-white band, with 

 dusky streaks, over the eye. The feathers of the upper parts 

 dark-brown, mostly tinged with green, and having reddish- 

 brown edges and whitish tips ; the wing-coverts brown ; the 

 speculum as in the male, but of a dull brownish-green. The 

 throat white ; the fore neck and breast greyish-white, varie- 

 gated with brown ; the feathers on the sides of the body 

 brown, with white margins ; the rest of the lower parts 

 white, only the abdominal and subcaudal feathers spotted 

 with brown. 



Length to end of tail 15 inches; extent of wings 25; 

 tarsus 1^ ; middle toe and claw 1-^^. 



Habits. — The Garganey Teal has a very extensive range 

 of habitation, it having been found in India, Africa, the 

 south of Europe, and from thence as far north as Russia and 

 Sweden. It is more a southern bird, however, than our 

 other species, and in Europe is met with chiefly in summer. 

 In England it has been obtained in CornAvall, Devonshire, 

 Kent, Essex, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire. It is 

 also mentioned as occurring in Wales. It had not, I believe, 

 been observed in Scotland until March 1841, when four 



