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ANATIDJ2, 



NATATORES. 



AN AT ID JE. 





Anas 



THE BIMACULATED DUCK. 



Anas glocitans. 



glocitans, Bimaculated Duck, PBNN. Brit. Zoo), vol. ii. p. 272. 

 BEWICK, Brit Birds, vol. ii. p. 37 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 125. 



Querquedula 

 Anas 



Teal, 



Duck, 



Teal, 



Canarde ylousseur, 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 321. 

 JENVNS, Brit. Vert. p. 232. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xvii 

 TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. pt. iv. p. 533. 



THE British historical notice of this prettily marked 

 duck was thus given by Mr. Vigors, in November 1824.* 

 " The male of this species was first described by Pennant 

 in his British Zoology, under the name of Bimaculated 

 Duck, and introduced as an inhabitant of the British 

 Islands, in the following words : ' Taken in a decoy in 

 1771, and communicated to me by Edward Poore, Esq. 1 

 The same bird was afterwards described and figured by 

 Dr. Pallas, in the Acta Stoc&kolmiensia for 1779, as a 



* Linneean Transactions, vol. xiv. p. 560. 



