14 ANATIN^. 



yellow at the base, olive-broAvn tOAvard the end ; feet brown ; 

 upper part of head and hind-neck deep chestnut-brown ; 

 sides of the head and upper neck glossy green ; on the 

 fore part of the cheek an oblong reddish-brown patch, and 

 another on the side of the neck ; breast brownish-red, spotted 

 Avith black ; speculum deep green, glossed with purple, and 

 margined behind with white ; tail-feathers all straight, the 

 two medial black. 



GENUS III. QUERQUEDLLA. TEAL. 



Bill nearly as long as the head, considerably higher than 

 broad at the base, gradually depressed, but scarcely widened 

 toward the end, it being comparatively slender, with the 

 margins nearly parallel; upper mandible with the frontal 

 angles short and pointed, the ridge broad and concave at 

 the base, gradually narrowed, the unguis small, obovato- 

 oblong, decurved at the end, the sides convex, erect at the 

 base, the lamellse projecting a little from the base to two- 

 thirds of the length of the bill, then shortened; legs very short; 

 tarsus compressed, with small anterior scutella ; hind toe 

 with a very narrow membrane ; outer toe considerably shorter 

 than the third, which is longer than the tarsus ; interdigital 

 membranes emarginate ; claws small, compressed, rather 

 acute ; feathers of the head and upper neck short ; scapulars 

 elongated and acuminate ; inner secondaries long and taper- 

 ing ; wings narrow, pointed, of about twenty-five quills, the 

 first and second longest ; tail tapering, of sixteen stiffish, 

 tapering feathers. 



1. Querquedula Crecca. European Teal. A longitudinal 

 ridge of narrow decurved feathers on the head and nape ; 

 head and upper neck chestnut-brown, with a green patch 

 behind the eye, margined beneath with black and white ; 

 speculum black externally, green internally, edged Avith 

 black ; under the tail a black and two cream-coloured 

 patches. 



2. Querquedula Circia. Gargancy Teal. A white streak 

 from over the eye to half-way down the neck; scapulars 

 black, Avith a medial white streak ; Aving-coverts bluish- 



