212 SURFACE-FEEDING DUCKS. 



GARGANEY.— Plate 93. 16 inches. Crown and 

 nape dark brown ; white stripe above the eye ; re- 

 mainder of head and neck ruddy -brown, finely 

 streaked with white ; upper parts dark brown, with 

 lighter edges to the feathers ; wings bluish-gray near 

 the shoulders, remainder brown, with grayish-green 

 speculum between white bars ; under parts whitish, 

 with fine dark markings on breast and flanks ; bill 

 blackish ; legs dark. Femxile : dark brown above, 

 with pale edges to the feathers ; face and neck 

 whitish, with fine dark streaks ; pale stripe over eye ; 

 upper breast blackish, with white edges to the 

 feathers ; speculum very dull, but between white bars 

 as in the male. The summer plumage of the male 

 is, as usual, like that of the female, but the speculum 

 is at all times brighter. Summer migrant. 



Eggs. — 8, or more, cream - colour ; 1-85 ^ 135 inch 

 (plate 132). 



Nest. — Among coarse herbage, usually in swampy 

 ground ; distinguishable, like those of all Ducks, by 

 the particular kind of down-feathers with which it is 

 lined. 



Distribution. — As a breeding bird regularl}^ in the 

 Norfolk Broads and to some extent in Suffolk ; pos- 

 sibly in some other counties ; best known, however, 

 as a spring and autumn migrant on the east side of 

 England ; rare elsewhere. 



The Garganey, or Summer Teal, is, as its name 

 implies, a summer migrant, and nests chiefly in the 

 eastern counties of England, occurring sporadically 

 elsewhere, though more generally at times of migration. 

 Flocks of these Ducks usually hug the reedy shores 



