2[4 ANSERES. 



Yokohama. It lias also occurred on tbc Kuriics, ubcrc it is probably 

 a snniracr visitor (Blakiston and Pry er, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, 

 p. 96). Tcmminck and Scblegal erroneously regarded it as a cross 

 between Anas jjwcilorhyncha and Anus bosclias, but it is unquestion- 

 ably a good species, mIiosc range extends across China to Mongolia 

 and Eastern Siberia. 



236. ANAS CRECCA. 

 (COMMON TEAL.) 



Anascrecca, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 204 (170G). 



The Teal and the Gargancy are the only Japanese Ducks in ubich 

 the wing from carpal joint measures less than 7^ inches. In tbc Teal 

 the outer webs of the outer secondaries are velvet-black, those of the 

 three inner ones metallic emerald-green. 



Figures : Dresser, Birds of Europe, vi. pi. 426. 



The Teal has long been known to occur in the Kurile Islands and 

 in Kamtschatka (Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. ii. p. 263). It breeds 

 in the Kurile Islands (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 

 1882, p. 97) ; winters sparingly in Yezzo (VVhitely, Ibis, 1867, p. 207), 

 and aliundantly in Southern Japan (Blakiston and Pryer, Ibis, 1878, 

 p. 213). There is a male (Blakiston, April) and a female (Blakiston, 

 November) in the Swinhoc collection from Hakodadi (Swinhoe, Ibis, 

 1877, p. 147), and there are two examples in the Pryer collection 

 from Yokohama. Mr. Ringer has obtained it at Nagasaki, where 

 the examples procured by the Siebold Expedition were doubtless also 

 obtained (Tcmminck and Schlcgel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, p. 127). 

 It has also been recorded from the most southerly group of the 

 Loo-Choo Islands (Stejneger, Zeitscbr. gcs. Orn. 1887, p. 169). 



The breeding-range of the Teal extends from the British Islands 

 across arctic and subarctic Eurasia to the Kurile Islands. 



237. ANAS FORMOSA. 

 (SPECTACLED TEAL.) 



Anas formoaa, Georgi, Reis. Russ. Roichs, i. p. 1G8 (1776). 



The Spectacled Teal is not one of tlio larger Ducks (wing from 

 carpal joint 7^' to 8 inches). It has a small bill (from frontal feathers 



