36 BIRDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 
QUERQUEDULA. Steph. 
Bit, as long as the head ; height, equal to the breadth at the base, of 
equal width throughout, lamelle, hardly visible; second quill, the 
longest ; secondaries, lengthened ; tail, wedge-shaped ; hind toe, short, 
slightly lobed. 
All parts of the world. 
97. QUERQUEDULA GIBBERIFRONS. S. Muller. C.M. 
Little Teal. 
Anas gracilis. BULLER. 
ABOVE, brown, with a white bar on the wing; throat, yellowish white ; 
abdomen, brownish fulvous, spotted with brown ; speculum, green. 
Os WetO s tbe 16.5 Ts, 1-25, 
Both Islands, Australia, New Caledonia, Indian Archipelago. 
Anas. JL. 
Bri, longer than the head, higher than broad at the base, of nearly 
equal breadth throughout ; first quill, the longest ; tertials lengthened ; 
tail, wedge-shaped ; hind toe, small, somewhat lobed. 
All parts of the world. 
98. ANAS CHLOROTIS. Gray. C.M. 
Red Teal. Pateke. 
Nesonetta Aucklandica. [List of birds in the New Zealand Exhibition. | 
ABOVE, greyish brown, varied with rufous; breast, rufous ; abdomen, 
yellowish brown, spotted with black ; speculum, greenish black, bordered 
above and below with rufous white ; circle of whitish feathers round 
the eye. Head of male tinged with green. 
Peo. (6 3 B25 D., 1d. 
Variable—sometimes with a white band on the fore part of the neck. 
Egg.—White ; length, 2-45 ; breadth, 1-85. 
Both Islands, Chatham Islands. 
99. ANAS SUPERCILIOSA. Gml. C.M. 
Grey Duck. Parera. 
GREYISH brown, varied with yellowish white ; eyebrows, cheeks, and 
upper part of neck, yellowish white, with two small bauds of blackish 
