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MOTTLED TEAL. 
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Length...... 163 Would, ss sas 13 LOTS vans 3 
The head and neck of this bird are finely marked with fuscous — 
dots, those of the neck being mostly in transverse lines, thus forming 
several undulating fascia; the feathers of the upper part of the back 
are of a brownish grey, and are marked in the centre by oval fuscous 
spots; the scapular feathers are similarly marked by long, central, 
black strigeze, which in some lights are of a beautiful green; the lower 
part of the back is of a uniform fuscous colour; the upper wing 
coverts are fuscous, the apices of the lowest range of feathers being 
also terminated with rufous, which colour forms a narrow fascia across 
the wing immediately over the speculum; the external secondary quill 
feathers are black on their outside margin, and are terminated with — 
light buff; the internal webs are fuscous on their outside webs, with 
a shade of deep green, and slightly margined with buff; the breast 
and middle of the abdomen are whitish, the feathers of the former 
being strongly marked with round black spots in the centre, those of 
the latter being more strongly marked, so as to exhibit irregular 
fasciee ; bill yellow, with a black apex. 
Anas creccoides, King ......... Zool. Jour. 4. 99. 
Inhabits the Straits of Magellan. A specimen was in the: 
Museum of the Zoological Society. 
QUERQUEDULA CAPENSIS. 
Quer.—Rostro coccineo; marginibus capitroque basali atris. 
CAPE TEAL. 
Teal, with the bill crimson; the margins and a band round the 
base black. 
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Light-brown teal; all the dorsal aspect with the feathers 
edged with lighter; those on the breast and under parts very light 
brown, with a lunule of darker on each feather; the throat white; 
