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BAIKAL TEAL. 



(Querquedula formosa.) 



Qv.fusca -certice nigro albo marginato, guld ntfescente nigro 

 maculata, alarum specula nigro testaceo marginato, anterius 

 macula obliqua. mridi-nitente insignita. 



Brown Teal with the crown black, edged with white, the throat 

 reddish, spotted with white, the speculum of the wing black, 

 margined with testaceous, and marked in front with an oblique 

 shining-green spot. 



Anas formosa. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 523. Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 876. 



Baikal Teal. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 557. 



" SIZE of the Teal : length fifteen inches : the beak 

 is black : crown of the head the same, bordered on 

 each side with white : from the eye to the throat, on 

 each side, is a curved streak of black, bounded on 

 the back part by a pale one, and afterwards by one 

 of green : the nape of the neck and sides undulated : 

 throat pale rufous, dotted with black : the back is 

 brown : bastard wing striped with ferruginous, white 

 and black ; the outer edge of it undulated : speculum 

 black, on the fore part obliquely marked with glossy 

 green, and edged with testaceous : vent black, spotted 

 on each side with ferruginous, and crossed with a 

 white band: tail somewhat pointed, brown ; the middle 

 feathers whitish : legs of a dull red : claws grey. In- 

 habits Russia, about the Lake Baikal." Latham. 



