QUERQUEDULA. 169 



Genus QUERQUEDULA Stephens, Gen. Zool. xii. pt. 2, 

 1824, p. 142. 



Type : Q. querquedula (Linn.). 



Querquedula, a kind of Duck mentioned by Varro and Columella ; perhaps 

 from icepirot;pos = a light vessel used by the Cyprians: or from Kapicnipu = 

 I ring (Vanifek). Prof. Skeat says the name is from an onomatopoeic base, 

 querq or kark, significative of any loud noise. 



Querquedula querquedula, GARGAXEY. 



Anas querquedula Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 126 : 

 Sweden. 



Querquedula circia (Linn.) B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 126 ; 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. 1895, p. 293 ; Sounders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. ] 899, p. 435. 



Distribution in the British Islands. Chiefly a Spring 

 Visitor ; less frequent in autumn, and occasionally passing the 

 winter. It breeds regularly, but in small numbers, in some 

 of the south-eastern counties of England from Norfolk south- 

 wards to Kent. Formerly it bred regularly in Northumber- 

 land before Prestwick Carr was drained, and has done so 

 occasionally during recent years in Durham, Yorkshire, 

 Hampshire, and Somersetshire. In Scotland, the west o 

 England and Wales, and in Ireland it is rarely met with ; 

 while in the Shetland and Orkney Islands and in the Outer 

 Hebrides its occurrence is exceptional. 



General Distribution. The Garganey breeds throughout 

 the greater part of the Palsearctic region, and in winter visits 

 northern and tropical Africa and southern Asia eastwards 

 to Japan, the Philippines, Borneo, Java, the Moluccas, and 

 New Guinea. 



Querquedula discors. BLUE-WINGED TEAL. 



Anas discors Linnceus. Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i. 1766, p. 205 : 

 Eastern United States. 



Querquedula discors (Linn.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 126 ; 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. 1895, p. 299 ; Sounders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 434. 



Discors = unlike, from its peculiar wing-markings. 



