758 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
only specimens of this bird seen by him, two in number, were 
procured on a large vley about one hundred miles north-west 
of Cape Town. This was probably Verloren Vley. We have not 
seen it from the colony; but a mutilated specimen appeared in 
Mr. Chapman’s collection. 
In Natal Mr. Ayres states that this Teal appears singly or at 
most in pairs. Lieutenant Giffard obtained it near Newcastle in 
November. In the Transvaal Mr. Ayres says that it is tolerably 
common about the lagoons near Potchefstroom and is found in pairs 
and small flocks.” Mr. Andersson writes: ‘This is a rare Duck in 
Damara and Great Namaqua Land. I procured more individuals at 
Omanbondé than at any other locality ; several specimens have also 
been brought from the Lake country.’ Senor Anchieta found it 
abundant at Mossamedes and on the Coroca River. 
Male.—Umber-brown, edged with lighter; crown, occiput, and 
quills, dark brown; chin, throat, cheeks, rump, and under tail- 
coverts, light brown; the last narrowly edged with darker; breast, 
lower part of neck, and under surface, darker than on the rump; 
abdomen barred with black; speculum and secondaries, bright 
brassy-green ; the former edged behind with black, then with white ; 
coverts brown, slightly glossed with brassy ; tail dark brown. 
Female.—Like the male, but markings less distinct; under 
plumage lighter ; legs in both sexes brown ; bill lead-coloured ; nail 
horn-brown. Length, 13’ 9”; wing, 5” 8’’’; tail, 2’’ 10’’’, 
Fig. Smith, Ill. Zool. S. Afr. Aves, pl. 105. 
731. QUERQUEDULA CAPENSIS (Gm.). Cape Teal. 
Mareca capensis, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 351. 
The ‘ Teal-eentdtje” is usually confounded here with the “ Smee 
cendtje,” in company with which we have shot it at Beaufort, the 
Knysna, on the Cape Flats, and at Vogel Vley. At this latter place we 
killed one near a nest which contained a single egg; it was probably 
one of this species, and is of a dirty greenish-white throughout : axis, 
1” 10’”; diam., 1’ 6’”’.. Mr. Ayres has recorded one specimen which 
he shot in the Transvaal in August, and Mr. Andersson writes: 
“This is rather a scarce Duck in Damara and Great Namaqua Land ; 
but I have found it more abundant in the immediate neighbourhood 
of Walwich Bay than elsewhere in Damara Land.” Senor Anchieta 
has procured it on the coast of Mossamedes and on the Coroca River. 
