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the head and neck spotted, and minutely streaked with dark and light 
_ brown; wing-spot bright green, margined on every side but the upper 
- with a band of white; wing coverts, quills, and tail blue slate- 
colour, the latter with each feather edged with much lighter; legs 
reddish brown. 
Female similar, but rather smaller. 
Querquedula Capensis............ Smith, Cat. S. Afric. Mus. 
- Inhabits Southern Africa, and brought home by Dr. Smith, by 
whom it has-been figured in his work on South African Zoology. 
QUERQUEDULA HOTTENTOTA. 
Quer. Mas.—Brunneus, marginibus pennarum suturatioribus ; 
tectricibus caudee juguloque pallidé brunneis, illo atro fasciato. 
Quer. Fem.—Mari similis, sed tectricibus caude toto corpori 
similibus. 
' HOTTENTOT TEAL. 
Male, brown teal, with the margins of the feathers lighter; the 
tail coverts and throat light brown; the latter fasciated with black. 
Fem. like the male, but with the quill feathers like the rest of 
the body. _ 
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Male: umber brown, with the edges of the feathers lighter ;- the 
crown, occiput, and quills dark brown; chin, throat, cheeks, rump, 
~ and under tail coverts light brown, the latter narrowly barred with 
darker; breast and lower part of the neck and under surface darker 
than on the rump; the abdomen barred with black; speculum and 
secondaries bright brassy green, the former edged posteriorly with 
black, then white white ; coverts brown, slightly glossed with brassy; 
tail dark brown. 
Fem.: similar to the male, but with the markings generally not 
so distinct, and the whole plumage below lighter; legs in both sexes 
brown; bill lead-colour, with the nail horn-colour. 
Querquedula Hottentota........ Smith, Cat. S. Afric. Mus. 
Brought home by Dr. Smith from the western coast of South 
