3S6 Synopsis of the Birds 



330. Anas crecca, L. Mirror rich green, black on the sides, 

 margined with white and rufous ; wing coverts brownish-ash ; 

 tail of sixteen feathers. 



Male, head and neck glossy chesnut ; a green band each 

 side of the head ; throat black. 



Female wholly dusky, skirted with whitish ; throat white. 



Green-winged Teal, Anas crecca, Wils. Am. Orn. viii. p. 101. 

 pi. 70. Jig. 4. 



Inhabits the north of both continents, migrating periodi- 

 cally far to the south : very common during winter through- 

 out the United States and Italy. 



74. FULIGULA. 



Anas, L. Gm. Lath. 111. Vieill. Ranz. Anas, Anser, 

 Briss. Fuligula, Nob. Orn. Rom. (ined.) JYom. Wils. Orn. 

 Cat. of birds U. S. Specchio Comp. Rom. Ph. (as a sub- 

 genus.) Platypus, Brehm. Hydrobates, Temm/* Harelda, 

 Clangula, Fuligula, Oidemia, Biziura, Somateria, Rhyn- 

 chaspis, Steph.j- Nyroca, Ania, fyc. of other English authors. 



Male, head and neck reddish-brown, sprinkled with white ; crown black- 

 ish ; a white line above the eye. 



Female, wholly dusky, skirted with whitish ; blue of the wings, and 

 green of the mirror, obsolete. 



Garganey, and Summer Teal, Lalh. La Sarcelle d'Ele, Buff pi. enl. 946. 



Inhabits the north of the old continent, not extending to the Arctic cir- 

 cle; common in temperate Europe, where it breeds. 



* This name has been applied by Vieillot to the genus Cinclus of authors, 

 and by Boie to Mr. Vigors' Thalassidroma, and is too closely resembling 

 the Family name Hygrobatae of Uliger, having precisely the same mean- 

 ing and derivation. The name of Platypus is also preoccupied in Zoology, 

 having been applied to a genus of minor animals. My name of Fuligula 

 has, moreover, the priority, as a subgenus, over any other; and as we have 

 since ascertained, has the advantage of having been used by Kay. 



•j- In this genus are placed birds with and without the hind toe mem- 

 brane, and of more or less aquatic form and habits. 



