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PALMIPEDES. 3079 
An. sponsa, .; Enl. 980 and 981; Wils. VIII, Ixxviii, 3. Their 
capsules are of a medium size, and are rounded. 
There are other species, also foreign, which to the bill of a Duck add 
legs, even longer than those of a Goose; they build and perch on trees*. 
Some of this number have but semi-palmated feet}. Finally among 
those which have no peculiar mark is the 
An. strepera, L.; Le Chipeau, or Ridenne, Enl. 958; Naum. I, 
c. 45, f.65; Wils. VIII, lxxi, 1. (The Gadwal). Reticulated and 
finely striped with black; wings, red with a green spot and a white 
one. The capsule of the trachea is small. 
An. Penelope, L.; Le Siffeur, Enl. 835; Frisch, 164 and 169; 
Naum. f. 72 and 73¢. (The Whistler). Finely striped with black; 
vinous-coloured breast; red head; pale forehead; the wing white, 
green, and black. ‘The capsule of the trachea is rounded, mode- 
rate, and very bony §. 
There are several small species designated by the general name of 
TEAL. 
An. querquedula, L.; La Sarcelle ordinaire, Enl. 946, and the 
old male, An. circia, Frisch, 176; Naum. 47, f. 66 and 67. (The 
Garganey Duck). A grey ground, reticulated with black; a white 
line round, and at the end of the eye, &c. Common on ponds, 
marshes, &c. Its capsule is a pyriform bony enlargement. 
An. crecca, L.; La petite Sarcelle, Enl. 947; Frisch, 174; 
Naum. 48, f. 68,69; Wils. VIII, lxx, 4; Brit. Zool. pl.Q. (The 
Common Teal). Finely striped with blackish; the head red; a 
green band at the corner of the eye edged with two white lines, &c. 
The capsule resembles a pea||. 
Mereus, Lin. 
The genus of the Harles or Mergansers comprehends those species in 
which the bill, thinner and more cylindrical than that of the Ducks, is 
armed along its edges with small pointed teeth resembling those of a saw 
and directed backwards; the tip of the upper mandible is hooked. Their 
carriage and even plumage are those of Ducks, properly so called; but 
their gizzard is less muscular, and their intestines and ceca shorter. 
The inflation of the lower larynx in the males is enormous, and partly 
membranous. ‘They live on lakes and ponds, where they are very de- 
structive to fish. 
* An. arborea, Enl. 804;—autumnalis, 826 ;—viduata, 808. 
+ An. semipalmata, Lath.; Cuv. Mém. du Mus. 
¢ Penelope, the Greek name of a red-headed Duck, either the present species or 
the ferina, L. 
§ Add, dn. rutila, Pall. Nov. Com. Petrop., XIV, xxii;—An. cana and casarea, 
Brown, Ill. 41 and 42;—An. pecilorhyncha, Indian Zool. pl. xiv;—the Jensen (An. 
americana), Enl. 955, Wils. VIII, Ixix, 4;—the Maree (An. bahamensis), Catesb. 93; 
—An. obscura, Wils. VIII, lxxii, 5;—An. arcuata, Gm., or paturi, Spix, C. 
|| Add, dn, discors, Enl. 966 and 403;—An. manillensis, Sonner. Voy. I, pl. lv. 
Sarcelle comes from querquedula, which itself is only an imitation of the ery of the 
bird. 
