148 BRITISH BIRDS. 



221. Querquedula querquedula (L.). GARGANEY. 



Hab. Palaearctic region, except extreme north. In 

 winter migrating to North Africa and India. 



Male : forehead, crown and back of neck dark brown, 

 bordered each side by a white stripe which commences 

 above eye and fades half-way down neck ; cheeks and 

 throat rufous-brown, minutely streaked with white ; chin 

 blackish ; breast-feathers pale brown with dusky margins ; 

 back dark brown ; wing-coverts light bluish-grey ; specu- 

 lum metallic-green, bordered above and below with white ; 

 abdomen white ; sides with fine dusky vermiculations, 

 and with two noticeable black crescents on each lower 

 flank ; bill blackish ; iris hazel ; feet slate-brown. Length 

 15*50. Female : white stripe on side of head less distinct 

 and tinged with buff; wing-coverts brownish-grey ; specu- 

 lum duller ; chin and under parts greyish-white, mottled 

 with two shades of brown on breast and sides. 



A scarce visitor in spring ; seldom found breeding out of 

 East Anglia, where it nests regularly in small numbers. 

 Of uncommon occurrence in Scotland and a very rare 

 straggler to Ireland. 



222. Querquedula diseors (L.). BLUE-WINGED TEAL. 

 Hab. Eastern North America, northward to Labrador. 

 An example shot in Dumfriesshire in 1858 (wrongly 



recorded by Gray as killed in January, 1863) is now 

 in Edinburgh Museum. 



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223. Querquedula ereeea (Linn.). COMMON TEAL. 

 Hab. Palsearctic region ; also Alaska and Greenland. 

 Male : chin black ; head, cheeks and neck chestnut, 



with a patch of glossy dark green, narrowly bordered with 

 buff, upon the ear-coverts and eye ; mantle and flanks 



