q7 
_ Precisely similar to Q. crecca, with the exception of the under 
tail coverts, which are black, and in having a white band on each side 
opposite the point of the wing. 
Anas Carolinensis .,...++..+000.. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 583. 
Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 874. 
Jard. Illus. Orn. pl. 148. 
Amertean Teal cvccecicocvcacevse Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 584. 
Inhabits America, where it takes the place of the preceding 
species. 
QUERQUEDULA FORMOSA. 
Quer.—Vertice, gutture, fasciaque ab hoc ad oculos atris, utrinque 
albo marginato. 
‘BAIKAL TEAL. 
Teal, with the crown, throat, and a streak proceeding from the 
latter to the eye black, bounded on each side with white. 
ORG Hi icins ates eearyeccn 154 POGESU” panacaksnaatate 3 
DUE sce EES RS 1 §-12ths Middle toe ......... 1 4-5ths 
Male: crown and throat black, with each feather slightly tipped with 
ferruginous brown; from the latter proceeds a black waved streak to 
the eye, bounded on each side by a narrow one of white, and enclos- 
ing a patch of fawn-colour; from the bill through the eye proceeds 
a broad band of glossy green to the occiput, where it is broadest, 
and trifurcate below, the centre branch extending down to the back 
of the neck, the lateral ones curved to the fore neck, but do not 
meet, the whole bounded by a narrow edging of white; fore part of 
the neck bright reddish fawn-colour, spotted with black; back brown; 
lower part of the neck (behind) black, thickly irrorated with white ; 
flanks the same; belly white; quills and coverts brown; middle 
coverts tipped with brown; primary coverts glossy purplish black, 
tipped with white; tertiaries long, outer webs black, edged with 
‘ferruginous; inner webs light fawn-colour; tail brown; tail coverts 
the same, edged with lighter; under tail coverts black, having on the 
sides anteriorly a broad band of white; the under coverts bounded 
laterally with a bar of ferruginous; bill brown; legs light yellow; 
wing-spot bounded anteriorly by brown, posteriorly by white. 
Fem.: unknown. 
