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Qucrquedula circia., the Garganey, which breeds (p. 126) regu- 

 larly in East Angiia, ranges through most Palaearctic countries, and 

 extends in winter to North Africa, a great part of the Indian Eegion, 

 and the Moluccas ; it has a brown crown, back, and chest, the last- 

 named with darker crescents, a chocolate neck with white flecks, a 

 white streak above the eye, bluish-grey wing-coverts, green speculum 

 with white margins, and long black and white scapulars. Q. discors, 

 its North American representative, reaching Ecuador and Peru in 

 the cold season, is redder, with lead-coloured head, a white cres- 

 cent before the eye, and brighter wing-coverts. The brownish 

 females have a dull speculum. Q. versicolor, of America south of 

 Paraguay, and Q. ])v/iw, of Peru, Bolivia, and Chili, have plumbeous 

 wing-coverts: Q. njiDioptera, of western and southern South 

 America, has the head and lower surface chestnut. 



The flightless New net la, (lucUanclica, of the Auckland group, 

 hardly differs in colour from Elasmonettri chlorotis, of the New 

 Zealand area, wiiich is l)rowu waved with black and rufous above, 

 chestnut and reddish with black spots below, the speculum beiug 

 green and l)lack, the gorget whitish. The female is rufous brown. 



Dafila acutd, the Pintail or Sea-Pheasant of the northern regions 

 generally, reaching North Africa, Ceylon, the Sandwich Islands, 

 Panama, and elsewhere in winter, has a brown head and nape, a 

 white line down each side of the neck, grey upper parts vermicidated 

 with dusky, long black scapulars and rectrices mostly edged with 

 white, a purple-green speculum margined in turn with Idack and 

 white, a cinnamon l)ar on the wing-coverts, and a white breast. The 

 female is greyish with brown speculum and ochraceous barring- 

 alcove, the markings being oblique on the tail. It now breeds in 

 Scotland. D. c<ito)ti, of Kerguelen Island and the Crozets, has a 

 grey Icreast ; D. splnicnuda, ranging from I*eru and South Brazil 

 to Patagonia and the Falklands, has a rufous head and blackish 

 speculmn, the sexes being nearly alike, as in the next genus. 

 Pocrilonetta haJiamensis of the Baliamas, Antilles, and South 

 America, P. (/a/(q)(u/e)isis of the Galapagos, and F. erj/throi'Jtj/vcJid 

 of South and East Africa with Madagascar, are somewliat similar 

 l)irds, having reddish ])lumage spotted with black, whitish cheeks 

 and throat. In the first two the tail is buff, in the third the bill 

 is chiefly pink, the speculum in all being much as in Dajila. 



Nettioii crecca, the Teal, extending from Britain over most of 

 Europe and temperate Asia, and nesting even in tlie Azores and 



