76 
Male: head, cheeks, and neck chestnut; from the eye to the 
occiput passes a band of metallic green, bordered by a stripe of 
yellowish ; below white ; the breast dotted with black; the scapulars, 
back, and flanks white, undulated with black; wing coverts brown ; 
quills hoary fuscous; speculum metallic green, bounded above and | 
below by velvet black ; lateral tail coverts with a band of black. 
Fem.: brown, with the edges of the feathers lighter; below 
yellowish white; speculum green, without the black edging; crown 
brown. 
Querquedula CVECCH.....00eereeeee Steph. Sh. Zool. 12. 146. 
PIAS CU CCCUG vss icucw arctan tas puceee Linn. Syst. 1. 264. 
Gmel. Syst. 1. 532. 
Lath. Ind. Orn, 2. 872. 
Common Teal wees sk ees Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 577. 
Green-winged Teal ......ssceseees Wils. Am. 8. Orn. 106, 
pl. T0, fig. 40. 
PCUEC. SALCBUE so nigeienseetkeanse Buff, Ois. 9. 265. 
Canard sarcelle d’ Hiver ...... Temm. Man. d’ Orn. 2. 846. 
MICU O mas Ute sats eeata tees Recent Linn. Trans. vol, 4. tab. 12, 
Jig. 1. 
Breeds in most marshy lakes in the north of Europe, America, 
Asia, and the British Isles; migrates southwards during winter, 
when it frequents almost entirely fresh water. Mr. Selby, in his 
‘‘Tllustrations of British Ornithology,” mentions that he is inclined 
to think that our indigenous broods seldom quit the immediate neigh- 
bourhood of the place in which they were bred. The nest is formed 
of grass; lays from eight to ten eggs of a whitish colour. 
QUERQUEDULA CAROLINENSIS. 
Quer.—Precedenti similis, sed distingueri potest fascia alba ante 
alis. 
AMERICAN TEAL, 
Quer. similar to Q. crecea, but distinguished from it by a white 
bar on each side of the breast. 
IN. IN. IN. 
Length wow 15 PHU Be 13 Tarsi since F 
