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dufty. Size of the laft, with the female of which it has great affinity j 

 "but in the ^''^r^le fpeculmn refembles the Gadwall. 



■'Brought from Newfoundland by Sir J.ofeph Banks, FtACE. 



P,^. TVa?/. Ixii. 419.^ — Anasclrcia? Faun. SHect^' i^o.-^Lathatat'in, 504. America* 



Krik-andZJaa/j, JrnsajVA, N" 130. Teal. 



With head and upper part of the neck of a fine deep bay : from 

 each eye to the hind part of the head is a broad bar of rich 

 changeable green : wants the white line, which the European kind has 

 above each eye^ having only one below : lower part of the neck and . 



jDreaft dirty white, beautifully fpotted with black : has over each 

 Ihoulder a lunated bar, another diftindlion fronn our fpecies : coverts 

 of wings brown : upper part of the back marked with waved lines of 

 white and black j lower part brown : tail duflcy : Jpeculum green : legs 



•dufky. Plumage of the Female of a brownilh afh, tinged with redj 

 and fpotted with black r wings refemble thofe of the male. 



Inhabits America, as high as Hudfon's Bay, and as low as Carolina, Place-, 



Is found plentifully about Severn river, in the woods and plains near 



'thefrelh waters j and has from five to feven young at a time. Difappears 

 in autumn : and is found, during winter, as low as Carolina, and per- 

 haps Jamaica. We feem here to have recovered the Summer Teal 

 of Mr; Willughby*-, to which x\\t American kind has great affinity. 

 He calls it the left of Ducks: and muft be the fame with the fecond 



■kind defcribed by Lanjojon f as frequenting frefh waters -, being lefTw 

 than the common fort, and always nodding their heads. 



*'Qrnitl}. 37S. t Hijf, Carol. 149. 



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