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HINA TEAL. 



(Querquedula Hina.) 



Qu. fined nlba infra oculos, regione oculorum viridi. 



Teal with a white line beneath the eyes, and the region of the 



eyes green. 



Anas Hina. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 523. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 876. 

 Hina Teal. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 558. 



A DOUBTFUL species : thus described by Latham. 

 " The beak is blackish -grey, and soft : the head and 

 chin brown : a white line passes below the eyes : all 

 above the eyes green : the neck and upper part of 

 the back white, spotted with black : lower part of 

 the back and rump ash-colour : upper part of the neck 

 white, spatted with black : breast and belly white, 

 spotted with black backwards : the feathers of the 

 rump edged with white : feet and legs ash-coloured. 

 The female has the head and all about the eyes of a 

 whitish-grey : chin white ; above black, and in some 

 parts of a reddish-white : beneath white, spotted with 

 black. Inhabits China, where it is called Hina-a" 



MANILLA TEAL. 



(Querquedula Manillensis.) 



Qu. t /kscfl, capite anteriore gula jugulique parte suprema albis, 

 abdominc a/bo lunulis nigris, remigibus rectricibusque schisti 

 colore. 



