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LONG teva bo | Bill sete LE TAPS is. .s0s 1 9-20ths 
Male: head and neck green, with a dark chestnut patch before 
and behind the eyes; the throat approaching to black; back and 
flanks white, undulated with black lines; breast and abdomen 
ferruginous, with a few black spots; wing coverts fuscous; speculum 
velvet black, bordered anteriorly with violaceous, posteriorly with 
white; quills brown, margined with ee bill, feet, and legs lead- 
coloured; the webs black. 
_ Fem.: slightly smaller than the male; head and neck light 
ferruginous, with the crown and base of each feather darker; 
abdomen white; back and flanks fuscous ferruginous, with the base 
_ of each feather brown. 
Anas-glocitans ..... sda atcnts Pall. Acta. Stock.1.779, 40, 
tab. 33. fig. 1. 
Gmel. Syst. 1. 526. 
Lath. Ind. Orn. 862. 
Querquedula glocitans ......066 Vig.Lin. Trans. vol. xiv. 559. 
Gould, Birds of Europe. 
Bimaculated Teal ........cceeeee Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 602. 
Canard Glousseur s..cccseveceees Vieill. Hin Method. Orn. 1. 
| 3 2 126. 
Said to inhabit Siberia and the neighbourhood of Lake Baikal. 
One or two specimens only have been met with in England. 
QUERQUEDULA CRECCA. 
Quer. Mas.—Capite colloque castaneis, fascia occipitali viridi. 
Quer. Fem.—Brunnea, marginibus pennarum suturatioribus ; 
subtus alba. 
COMMON TEAL. 
Teal, with the head and neck chestnut, with a green occipital 
fascia. : 
Fem. brown teal, with the margin of the feathers lighter; below 
. white. 
IN. 
Length vssvees cee ace 143 RAPSis larch vadaees aes 1-1-6th 
b PROP ip taise Gain ttecax sats 1-5-12ths Middle toe ......... 1% 
