310 NATATORES. QUERQUEDULA. 
honey-yellow, with a greenish tinge. Legs and toes 
orange. 
Puate 50 *. The Female, also of the natural size. 
Female. Head and neck dirty cream-yellow, with numerous streaks 
of brown, which are darkest upon the crown. Chin 
and throat pale buff. Upper parts umber-brown, of 
different shades, with the feathers margined with cream- 
coloured white. Lesser wing-coverts pale hair-brown, 
tinged with grey. Speculum purplish-blue, passing in- 
to velvet-black, with the tips of the feathers white. 
Quills pale hair-brown. Breast and under parts yel- 
lowish-brown, spotted and streaked with darker brown. 
Legs orange. 
The young males resemble the females till after the au- 
tumnal moult. 
Genus QUERQUEDULA, Ray. TEAL. 
GENERIC CHARACTERS. 
Bixt as long as the head, elevated at the base, strait, 
semi-cylindrical, nearly of equal breadth throughout ; tip 
obtuse, with the dertrum or nail small and hooked; man- 
dibles laminated, and having the laminze almost entirely con- 
cealed by the deflected margins of the upper mandible. Na- 
sal fosse small, lateral, near to the culmen of the bill. Nos- 
trils oval, pervious. 
Wings acute, with the first and second quills of nearly 
equal length. 
Tail wedge-shaped, with the two middle feathers more or 
less elongated, and acute. 
Legs having the tarsus rather shorter than the middle toe. 
Feet with four toes, three before and one behind ; the front 
ones webbed; the hind toe small and free. 
