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QUERQUEDULA CIRCIA. THE GARGANEY 

 TEAL. 



GARGANY. PIED WIGEON. CRICKET TEAL. SUMMER TEAL. 



Anas Circia. Linn. Sys. Nat. I. 204. 



Anas Querquedula. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 203. 



Anas Circia. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 873. 



Anas Querquedula. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 872. 



Garganey. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. 



Canard Sarcelle d'ete. Anas Querquedula. Temm. Man. d'Om. II. 844. 



Garganey Teal. Querquedula Circia. Selby, lUustr. II. 318. 



Anas Querquedula. Garganey. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. Anim. 234. 



Cyanopterus Circia. Bonap. Comp. List, o7. 



Male with the hill an inch and two-thirds long, seven- 

 twelfths and a half hroad toward the end, blackish-hrown ; 

 scapulars and inner secondaries elongated and tapering ; tail- 

 feathers acuminate ; upper part of the head and a hand along 

 the hind-neck umher-hroton ; a white hand oter the eye and 

 along the neck; cheeks and upper part of neck chestnut- 

 hroton, finely barred loith white ; throat black ; upper parts 

 greyish-hroton, glossed ivith green, the feathers edged with 

 paler ; scapulars black, icith a medial tvhite streak; loing- 

 coverts pale bluish-grey ; spectdum green, margined before 

 and behind loith white ; fore-neck and part of breast pale 

 yellow, with semicircular black bars, the rest of the breast 

 white; abdomen undulated; lower tail-coverts yellowish-iohite, 

 loith black spots. Femcde with the throat white, fore-neck 

 streaked and spotted with dusky, loioer parts tvhite, the sides 

 and abdomen spotted with brown ; upper parts deep broicn, 

 the feathers edged with white; wing-coverts broionish-grey ; 

 speculum duller than in the male. Young similar to the 

 female, but with the colours darker ; the speculum greenish- 

 brown. 



