454 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



with, Pocklington, Moreby, Thornton near York, Malton, 

 the Nidd Valley at Wilstrop and Newton Kyme, also at 

 Allerton Park, near Halifax, and in Upper Ribblesdale. 



Mr. W. H. St. Quintin informs me he shot a hybrid Pintail 

 and Mallard some years ago, at Lowthorpe, from amongst 

 Wild Ducks. 



The only local names of which I am aware are Sea Pheasant, 

 used in the East and North Ridings, and Pheasant Duck, 

 which is sometimes applied to it in the Beverley neighbourhood. 



COMMON TEAL. 

 Nettion crecca (Z.). 



Resident, local. Also common winter visitant, the first arrivals 

 taking place in August. 



As a Yorkshire bird, the Teal can boast of remote ancestry, 

 for we find, in the ordinances as to the price of victuals at 

 York in 1393, in the xvi. year of Richard II., the value of a 

 Teal was placed at id. 



Thomas Allis, in 1844, wrote : 



Anas crecca. The Teal Common near Doncaster, Sheffield, York, 

 and Leeds ; not uncommon near Barnsley during the winter months ; 

 occasionally they are found located with Wigeons on the Canal, and 

 still more frequently on the open brooks with the Mallards. It is 

 occasionally seen near Halifax in winter, as well as about Huddersfield ; 

 it breeds on Strensall Common, near York, as I am informed by my 

 friends Jas. and Wm. Tuke ; it is met with very rarely near Hebden 

 Bridge. 



This pretty little duck may be described as a local resident, 

 being recorded as breeding in limited numbers in several 

 moorland or other secluded localities, amongst which may 

 be enumerated Goole Moor and Thorne Waste (1889), Hems- 

 worth Dam (1902), Riccal and Skipwith Commons (1881), 

 Strensall Common (1883), Pilmoor, Danby, and several 

 other places in the Whitby and Cleveland districts, Allerton 

 Park, Malham Tarn (commonly), Bashall Hall, Sedbergh 



