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QUERQUEDULA. 127 



Querquedula crecca. COMMON TEAL. 



Anas Crecca, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 204 (1766). 

 Querquedula crecca, Macg. v. p. 48; Gray, p. 194; Gould, 



v. pi. 16 ; Harting, p. 62 ; Dresser, vi. p. 507. 

 Anas crecca, Naum. xi. p. 701 ; Hewitson, p. 410 ; Yarr. 



ed. 2, iii. p. 281 ; id. ed. 3, iii. p. 282. 

 The Teal, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 185. 



Crecca, probably from its note. Cf. Crex, q. v., and the German KriecJt- 

 Ente, old English Cracker = Pintail. 



Resident and generally distributed throughout the United 

 Kingdom. It inhabits the Palsearctic and Nearctic Regions, 

 and is abundant in winter in India. 



[Querquedula bimaculata. BIMACULATED DUCK. 



Anas bimaculata, Keyserling and Blasius, Wirbelth. 

 Eur. p. 227 (1840). 



Anas glocitans, Macg. v. p. 42; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 260. 



Querquedula bimaculata, Gray, p. 194. 



The Bimaculated Duck, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 165. 



Bimaculata = marked with two spots, maculee. 



A spurious species, described from a cross between a Teal 

 and a Wild Duck.] 



Querquedula carolinensis. AMERICAN GREEN- 

 WINGED TEAL. 



Anas carolinensis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 533 

 (1788). 



Anas carolinensis, Harting, p. 63. 



Carolinensis = from Carolina, in North America. 



One was obtained near Kingsbridge, South Devon, Nov. 

 23, 1879, and another in Hurst bourne Park, Hants, more 

 than forty years ago (' Zoologist/ 1880, p. 70) . Abundant 

 in North America. 



