BIMACULATED DUCK. 



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NATATORES. 



ANATID.E. 



THE BIMACULATED DUCK. 



Ai)as 



Querquedula ,, 

 Anas ,, 



glocitans, Bimaculated Duck, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 272. 



,, ,, ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 378. 



,, ,, ,, Fi.EM, Brit. An. p. 125. 



,, Teal, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol.ii. p. 321. 



„ Duck, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 232. 



,, Teal, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xvii. 



Canard glousseur, Temm. INIan.d'Ornith. pt. iv. p.533. 



The British historical notice of this prettily marhed duck 

 was thus given by Mr. Vigors, in November 1824.* "The 

 male of this species was first described by Pennant in his 

 British Zoology, under the name of Bimaculated Duck, and 

 introduced as an inhabitant of the British Islands, in the 

 following words : — 'Taken in a decoy in 1771, and com- 

 municated to me by Edward Poore, Esq.' The same bird 

 was afterwards described and figured by Dr. Pallas, in the 

 Acta Stockholmiensia for 1779, as a native of Siberia, fre- 



* Linnean Transactions, vol. xiv. p. 560. 



