168 ANATIN^E. QUERQUEDULA. 



ii. 846. Querquedula Crecca, European Teal, MacGillivray, 

 Brit. Birds, v. 



247. QUERQUEDULA CIRCIA. GARGANEY TEAL. 



Male with the bill an inch and two-thirds long, seven- 

 twelfths and a half broad toward the end, blackish-brown ; 

 scapulars and inner secondaries elongated and tapering ; tail- 

 feathers acuminate ; upper part of the head and a band along 

 the hind-neck umber-brown ; a white band over the eye and 

 along the neck; cheeks and upper part of neck chestnut- 

 brown, finely barred with white ; throat black ; upper parts 

 greyish-brown glossed with green, the feathers edged with 

 paler ; scapulars black, with a medial white streak ; wing- 

 coverts pale bluish-grey; speculum green, margined before 

 and behind with white ; fore-neck, and part of breast pale 

 yellow, with semicircular black bars, the rest of the breast 

 white; abdomen undulated; lower tail-coverts yellowish- 

 white, with black spots. Female with the throat white, fore- 

 neck streaked and spotted with dusky, lower parts white, the 

 sides and abdomen spotted with brown ; upper parts deep- 

 brown, the feathers edged with white ; wing-coverts brownish- 

 grey ; speculum duller than in the male. Young similar to 

 the female, but with the colours darker, the speculum green- 

 ish-brown. 



Male, 16J. 



The Garganey is met with only in small numbers, in winter 

 and spring, in various parts of England ; but had not, I be- 

 lieve, been observed in Scotland until March 1841, when four 

 individuals, said to have been shot near Stirling, were exposed 

 for sale in the Edinburgh market. It is uncertain whether 

 individuals remain to breed or not. 



Garganey. Pied Wigeon. Cricket Teal. 



Anas Circia and Querquedula, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 203, 204. 

 Anas Circia and Querquedula, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 873. 

 Anas Querquedula, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. ii. 844. Quer- 

 quedula Circia, Garganey Teal, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, v. 



248. QUERQUEDULA GLOCITANS. BIMACULATED TEAL. 



Male with the bill an inch and ten-twelfths long, greenish- 

 yellow at the base, olive-brown toward the end ; scapulars 

 and inner secondaries elongated and tapering; tail-feathers 

 acuminate ; upper part of head and hind-neck deep chestnut- 

 brown ; sides of the head and upper neck glossy green ; on 

 the fore part of the cheek an oblong reddish-brown patch, 



