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- TEAL. 
COMMON TEAL. 
Anas crecra, PENNANT. Movxtaau. 
Quer quedula crecca, SELBY. GouLD. 
os secwida, ALDROVANDUS. 
“ minor, BRIsSON, 
Anas—A Duck. CrecCO—.isiecereeee? 
Tuer Teal is widely dispersed over the European continent, 
being plentiful in Germany, Denmark, Holland, France, Spain, 
Turkey, and Italy, Iceland, Kamtschatka, Norway, Sweden, and 
Russia. In Asia it occurs in Asia Minor, China, India, Japan, 
Arabia, and Persia; and in Africa in Egypt and the northern 
districts; also, so writes Selby, in North America. 
They are plentiful in most parts of the country, at least 
in the winter half of the year, when the numbers of the 
resident birds are added to by large arrivals from the north. 
Either very dry, or very hard weather, causes them at each 
season to leave their accustomed haunts. 
In Cornwall the Teal is not uncommon near Falmouth, as 
at Penryn Creek, Gwyllyn Vase, Swanpool, and other places. 
A young Teal was shot by Mr. Girdlestone, at Hickling, in 
Norfolk, in the month of July; some birds of this species 
generally remain to breed in that county—at Reedham, 
Ranworth Broad, and Scoulton Mere. In Kent, in Romney 
Marsh; and in Cumberland, in the mosses about Carlisle, 
according to Dr. Heysham. They have done so in Yorkshire, 
on Strensall Common, near York; so too in Northumberland; 
and the Rev. Gilbert White, of Selborne, mentions young 
Teal taken on the verge of a pond in Wolmer Forest; 
likewise in Wales. 
