TEAL. NATATORES. QUERQUEDULA. 315 
length about half an inch Belly and abdomen yellow- 
ish-white, indistinctly marbled with pale broccoli-brown. 
Under tail-coverts white, speckled with chestnut-brown 
of different shades. Bill greyish-black. Legs and toes 
grey, tinged with brown. 
COMMON TEAL. 
QueraveDuLA Crecca, Steph. 
PLATE LIV. Mate and FemMAte. 
Querquedula Crecca, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 146. 
Anas Crecca, Linn. Syst. 1. 204. 33.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 532.—Lath. Ind. Orn. 
2. 872.—Linn. Br. Anim. 1. 125. sp. 192.—Wils. Amer. Orn. 8. 106. 
pl. 70. f. 4. male. 
Querquedula secunda, Aldrov. Rati Syn. 147. A. 5.—Wiil. 290. t. 74. 
Querquedula minor, Briss. 6. 436. 32. t. 40. f 1. 
Petite Sarcelle, Buff: Ois. 9. 265. t. 17. & 18.—Jd. Pl. Enl. 947. male. 
Canard Sarcelle d’Hiver, Temm. Man. d’Orn. 2. 846. 
Crickente, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 1143.—Meyer, Tasschenb. 2. p. 547. 
Common Teal, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. No. 290. —Arct. Zool. 2. 577. — Will. 
(Angl.) 337.—Albin’s Br. Birds, 1. t. 100.—Lath. Syn. 6. 551. 88.—Id. 
Sup. 276.—Jd. Sup. 2. 360.—Zd. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 4. 108. pl. 15. f. 1. 
(Trachea).—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 7. pl. 260.—Mont. Orn. Dict. 2. and Sup. 
—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 2. ed. 1826. pt. 
Green-winged Teal, Wiis. Amer. Orn. 8. 106. pl. 70. f. 40. male. 
Tue Teal, one of the smallest of the Anatide, is entitled 
to be included in the number of our indigenous birds, as it 
is known to breed in the bogs and marshy grounds of the 
northern counties of England, as well as on the edges of the 
Scottish lakes. It is not, however, to be supposed that the 
birds so generally spread over the kingdom during the win- 
ter, and taken in such great numbers in the decoys, and by 
various other devices, in the southern counties, are the pro- 
duce alone of those that remain with us; they are most of 
them natives of more northern latitudes, and who make these 
islands the boundary of their equatorial movement. Our 
indigenous broods, I am inclined to think, seldom quit the 
immediate neighbourhood of the place in which they were 
