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length about half an inch Belly and abdomen yellow- 

 ish-white, indistinctly marbled with pale broccoli-brown. 

 Under tail-coverts white, speckled with chestnut-brown 

 of different shades. Bill greyish-black. Legs and toes 

 grey, tinged with brown. 



COMMON TEAL. 



QUERQUEDULA CRECCA, Steph. 

 PLATE LIV. MALE and FEMALE. 



Querquedula Crecca, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 12. 146. 



Anas Crecca, Linn. Syst. 1. 204. 33 Gmel. Syst. 1. 532 Lath. Ind. Orn. 



2. 872 Linn. Br. Anim. 1. 125. sp. 192 Wilt. Amer. Orn. 8. 106. 



pi. 70. f. 4. male. 



Querquedula secunda, Aldrov. Raii Syn. 147. A. 5 Will. 290. t. 74. 

 Querquedula minor, Briss. 6. 436. 32. t. 40. f. 1. 

 Petite SarceUe, Buff. Ois. 9. 265. t. 17. & 18 Id. PL Enl. 947. male. 

 Canard Sarcelle d'Hiver, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2. 846. 

 Crickente, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 1143 Meyer, Tasschenb. 2. p. 547. 

 Common Teal, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. No. 290. Arct. ZooL 2. 577. 'Will. 



(Angl.) 337. Alton's Br. Birds, 1. t. 100 Lath. Syn. 6. 551. 88 Id. 



Sup. 276 Id. Sup. 2. 360 Id. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 4. 108. pi. 15. f. 1. 



(Trachea). Lewin's Br. Birds, 7. pL 260 Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. and Sup. 



Bewick's Br. Birds, 2. ed. 1826. pt. 

 Green-winged Teal, Wils. Amer. Orn. 8. 106. pi. 70. f. 40. male. 



THE Teal, one of the smallest of the Anatidae, is entitled 

 to be included in the number of our indigenous birds, as it 

 is known to breed in the bogs and marshy grounds of the 

 northern counties of England, as well as on the edges of the 

 Scottish lakes. It is not, however, to be supposed that the 

 birds so generally spread over the kingdom during the win- 

 ter, and taken in such great numbers in the decoys, and by 

 various other devices, in the southern counties, are the pro- 

 duce alone of those that remain with us ; they are most of 

 them natives of more northern latitudes, and who make these 

 islands the boundary of their equatorial movement. Our 

 indigenous broods, I am inclined to think, seldom quit the 

 immediate neighbourhood of the place in which they were 



