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upper and under tail-coverts yellowish-white, spotted 

 with black. Bill blackish-brown. Legs greyish-black. 

 Throat and chin white. Hind part of neck, and upper Female. 

 parts of body, hair-brown, the feathers being margined 

 with white. Wing-coverts dark ash-grey. Lower part 

 of breast and belly white. Flanks and abdomen spotted 

 with hair-brown. 



BIMACULATED TEAL. 



QUERQUEDULA GLOCITANS, Vigors. 

 PLATE LV. and LV. 



Querquedula glocitans, Vigors in Trans. Linn. Soc. 14. 559. 



Anas glocitans, Pall. Act. Stock. 1779. 40. t. 33. f. 1 Gmel. Syst. 1. 52G. 



Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 862. sp. 75 Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 125. sp. 193. 

 Mareca glocitans, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 12. 140. 

 Bimaculated Duck, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 602. No. 287. pi. 100 Lath. Syn. 



6. 521 Mont. Ornith. Diet. 1 Bewick's Br. Birds, 2d ed. 1826. 



p. t. 362. 



I HAVE adopted the views of my friend Mr VIGORS, in as- Very rare 



visitant, 

 signing to this rare and handsome species a station amongst 



the Teals, to which it shews a near affinity in the length and 

 form of its bill, graduated tail, and the general distribution 

 of colours in its plumage. In these islands, its appearance 

 seems to be of very rare occurrence, as three specimens only 

 have been hitherto recorded. The first of these was a male 

 bird, taken in a decoy in 1771, described and accurately 

 figured by PENNANT in his " British Zoology; 1 ' and the 

 next a male and female, also taken in a decoy in 1812, and 

 from which the figures in the present work were taken. 

 These last came into the possession of Mr VIGORS, by whom 

 they were subsequently presented to the Zoological Society, 

 and now enrich their museum. This species appears to be 

 an equal stranger on the continental parts of Europe, and is 

 altogether omitted by TEMMINCK, in his list of European 

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