. QUERQUEDULA. MAKECA. 171 



Querquedula crecca carolinensis. 



AMERICAN GKEEN-WINGED TEAL. 



Anas carolinensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. pt. 2, 1789, p. 533: 

 Hudson B;iy. 



Querquedula carolinensis (Gmel.); B. 0. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, 



p. 127. 

 Nettion carolinense (Gmel.) ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. 



1895, p. 250 ; Sounders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 433. 



Carolinensis = from Carolina, in North America. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor which 

 has occurred three times :- in Hurstbourne Park, Hampshire, 

 about 1840 ; a male at Scarborough, Yorkshire, Nov. 1851 ; 

 a male on Kingsbridge estuary, Devonshire, Nov. 1879. 



General Distribution. The American Green- winged Teal 

 breeds in North America from the Aleutian Islands and 

 Alaska eastwards to Ungava and Newfoundland and from 

 central California to New Brunswick. In winter its 

 migrations extend to Mexico, Central America, and the West 

 Indies. It has wandered to Greenland, the Bermudas, and 

 even to the Hawaiian Islands. 



Genus MARECA Stephens, Gen. Zool. xii. pt. 2, 1824, 



p. 130. 

 Type : M. penelope (Linn.). 



Mareca, the native name, according to Marcgrave, of the Brazilian Teal 

 (Querquedula brasilieiisis). 



Mareca penelope. WIGEON. 



Anas penelope Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 126: Sweden. 



Mareca penelope (Linn.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 123 ; 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. 1895, p. 227 ; Sounders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 437. 



Penelvpe ; 7rjveXo4' = a kind of Duck with purple stripes, in classical Greek 

 which was said to have fed Penelope, subsequently the wife of Ulysses, after 

 her parents had thrown her into the sea, from Trijvjy^woof, and 5i//(s=: sight, 

 " braided looking." 



Distribution in the British Inlands. A Resident, breeding 



