318 NATATORES. QUERQUEDULA. TEAL. 
yellowish-white, spotted with hair-brown. All the up- 
per parts brownish-black, deeply margined with yellow- 
ish-brown and white. Under parts yellowish-white. 
Speculum similar to that of the male. Legs tinged with 
yellow. 
The young of the year, of both sexes, strongly resemble 
the female bird; though usually rather darker in the 
tints of their plumage. 
GARGANY TEAL. 
QueravepuLa Crrcia, Steph. 
PLATE LIII. Male and Female. 
Querquedula Circia, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 143. pl. 51. 
Anas Circia, Linn. Syst. 1. 204. 34.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 553.—Raii Syn. 148.— 
Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 873. var. B. 
Querquedula zstiva, Briss. Orn. 6. 445, 33. 
La Sarcelle d’été, Buff. Ois. 9. 268.—Id. Pl. Enl. 946. 
Canard Sarcelle d’été, Temm. Man. 2. 844. 
La Sarcelle ordinaire, Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 539. 
Summer Teal, Wii. (Angl.) 378. t. 76.—A/lbin’s Birds, 2. 103. 104.—Lath. 
Syn. 6. 552. 89. 
Anas Querquedula, Linn. Syst. 1. 203. 32.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 531.—Briss. 6. 
427. 31. t. 39. f. 1. 2.—Raii Syn. 148. 8.— Will. 271. t. 74.—Lath. Ind. 
Orn. 2. 872. sp. 99.—Filem. Br. Amer. 1. 125. sp. 191. 
La Sarcelle commune, Buff: Ois. 9. 260. 
Knackente, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 1135. 
Gargany, Br. Zool. 2. No. 289. pl 101.—Arct. Zool. 2. 576. O.— Wiil. 
Angl. 377. t. 74.—Lath. Syn. 6. 550. 87.—Id. Sup. 2. 360.—Id. in Trans. 
Linn. Soe. 4. 108. pl. 13. f. 2. 3. (Trachea).—Lewin’s Br. Birds, pl. 259. 
—Mont. Orn. Dict. 1. and Sup.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, ed. 1826. pt. 372. 
—Shaw’s Zool. 12. 143. pl. 51.—Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 125, sp. 191. 
Provincrat—Pied Wigeon, Cricket Teal. 
Tue male of the Gargany, which does but slightly exceed 
the Common Teal in dimensions and. weight, is distinguished 
by a beautifully varied plumage; not, however, producing 
its effect by strong contrast, as the colours are mostly of a 
subdued tone, but dependent for its attraction upon a deli- 
cacy of pencilling and a pleasing gradation of tint, exceeded 
by few even of this handsome group of the Anatidz. In 
