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upper and under tail-coverts yellowish-white, spotted 
with black. Bill blackish-brown. Legs greyish-black. 
Throat and chin white. Hind part of neck, and upper 
parts of body, hair-brown, the feathers being margined 
with white. Wing-coverts dark ash-grey. Lower part 
of breast and belly white. Flanks and abdomen spotted 
with hair-brown. 
BIMACULATED TEAL. 
QUERQUEDULA GLOCITANS, Vigors. 
PLATE LV. and LV." 
Querquedula glocitans, Vigors in Trans. Linn. Soc. 14. 559. 
Anas glocitans, Pall. Act. Stock. 1779. 40. t. 33. f. 1.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 526. 
—Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 862. sp. 75.—Flem. Br, Anim. 1. 125. sp. 193. 
Mareca glocitans, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 140. 
Bimaculated Duck, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 602. No. 287. pl. 100.—Lath. Syn. 
6. 521.—Mont. Ornith. Dict. 1.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 2d ed. 1826. 
p. t. 362. 
I nave adopted the views of my friend Mr Vicors, in as- 
signing to this rare and handsome species a station amongst 
the 'Teals, to which it shews a near affinity in the length and 
form of its bill, graduated tail, and the general distribution 
of colours in its plumage. In these islands, its appearance 
seems to be of very rare occurrence, as three specimens only 
have been hitherto recorded. The first of these was a male 
bird, taken in a decoy in 1771, described and accurately 
figured by Prnnant in his “ British Zoology ;” and the 
next a male and female, also taken in a decoy in 1812, and 
from which the figures in the present work were taken. 
These last came into the possession of Mr Vicors, by whom 
they were subsequently presented to the Zoological Society, 
and now enrich their museum. ‘This species appears to be 
an equal stranger on the continental parts of Europe, and is 
altogether omitted by Temminck, in his list of European 
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Female. 
Very rare 
visitant. 
