Iv ANATIDAE 125 
Querquedula circia, the Garganey, which breeds (p. 126) regu- 
larly in East Anglia, ranges through most Palaearctic countries, and 
extends in winter to North Africa, a great part of the Indian Region, 
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. @. 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. puna, of Peru, Bolivia, and Chili, have plumbeous 
wing-coverts; @. cyanoptera, of western and southern South 
America, has the head and lower surface chestnut. 
The flightless Nesonetta auchlandica, of the Auckland group, 
hardly differs in colour from lasmonetia chlorotis, of the New 
Zealand area, which is brown waved with black and rufous above, 
chestnut and reddish with black spots below, the speculum being 
green and black, the gorget whitish. The female is rufous brown. 
Dafila acuta, 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 vermiculated 
with dusky, long black scapulars and rectrices mostly edged with 
white, a purple-green speculum margined in turn with black and 
white, a cinnamon bar on the wing-coverts, and a white breast. The 
female is greyish with brown speculum and ochraceous barring 
above, the markings being oblique on the taik It now breeds in 
Scotland. D. eatoni, of Kerguelen Island and the Crozets, has a 
grey breast ; D. spinicauda, ranging from Peru and South Brazil 
to Patagonia and the Falklands, has a rufous head and blackish 
speculum, the sexes being nearly alike, as in the next genus. 
Poecilonetta bahamensis of the Bahamas, Antilles, and South 
America, P. galapagensis of the Galapagos, and P. erythrorhyncha 
of South and East Africa with Madagascar, are somewhat similar 
birds, having reddish plumage 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. 
Nettion erecea, the Teal, extending from Britain over most of 
Europe and temperate Asia, and nesting even in the Azores and 
