146 COMMON TEAL. 



They lived there till the approach of winter; but 

 when the severe cold set in, they both died suddenly." 



COMMON TEAL. 

 (Querquedula Crecca.) 



Qu. capite rufo, lined alba supra infraque oculos, specula alarum 



viridi, nigroque, corpore transversim nigricante striato. 

 Teal with a red head, a white line above and beneath the eyes, 



the alar speculum black and green, and the body transversely 



striped with dusky. 

 Anas Crecca. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1 . 204. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1 . 532. 



Lath. 2nd. Om. 2. 872. 



Querquedula secunda Aldrovandi. Rail, Syn. 147. A. 

 Querquedula minor. Briss. Orn. 6. 436. pi. 40.y. 1. 

 Petite Sarcelle. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 265.;^. 17, 18. Buffi 



PI. Enl. 947. Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 539. 

 Canard Sarcelle d'hiver. Temm. man. d'Orn. 547. Id. 2 Edit. 



ii. 846. 

 Common Teal. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 290. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 



577. Alb. Birds, 2. pi. 100. Hayes, Brit. Birds, pi. 29. 



Lath. Gen. Syn. 6.551. Lath. Syn. Sup. 276. Lath. Syn. 



Sup. ii.360. Lath. Linn. Trans, iv. JI08.^/. 13. f. 1. (trachea.) 



Leu. Brit. Birds, 7- pi- 260. Wale. Syn. I. pi. 76. Mont. 



Orn. Diet. 2. and Sup. Bew. Brit. Birds, 237- 6. 

 Green-winged Teal. Wils. Amer. Orn. viii.^j. I0l.pl. Ixx.y. 4. 



male. 



LENGTH fifteen inches : beak dusky : irides brown : 

 the top of the head, cheeks, and neck arc chesnut- 

 red : the throat is black : a broad green band extends 

 from the eyes to the nape : the inferior part of the 

 neck, the back, scapulars, and sides are alternately 

 striped with zigzag lines of white and black : the 



