176 ' DUCK. 



tips, making a fpot on the wing : fome of the wing coverts have 

 alfo white tips, forming a large fpot of white forwards : the^Jegs 

 are black. 



A pair of thefe were fhot at one time, on a river in OJlrogothia-f 

 in Sweden. 



83. CoimnonTeal, G^». 5)iff. vi. p. 551. N^Sg.. 



4- COMMON Anas Crecca, Sefp Fog. pi. in p. 147. M. and Fern. 



TEAL. 



OTH the Garganey and this bird are found on the coafts of 



Kent in the winter *. The Teal is now known to breed in the 



mofles about Carlijle, in Cumberland -f. Both iht Garganey and, 



Teal extend to India, as I have met with them in drawings done 



in that country. I likewife find, that the Wild Duck, the Shoveler^ 



and the Gadwal, inhabit the coaft of Coromandel,. and, no doubt> 



other parts of India^ 



99. 

 PINK-HEADED gjzE of t\it Black-billed Whijiling Dmk : length twenty-one 

 P CXIX inches. Bill two inches and a half in length, a trifle bent at 



~ the point J colour of that, the whole of the head, and half the 



Description. . . 



neck, a fine pink 5 and, as far as that colour extends, the feathers 

 are fhort and downy : irides red : the lower part of the neck, and 

 the refl: of the plumage, a dufky deep chocolate brown^ except a 

 kind of fpeculum, formed of three or four of the quills, which are 

 of a pale red, or ruft-colour : fome of the lower wing coverts are 

 curved downwards at.the ends, z^\n the male o( the Wefiern Buck X : 

 the tail is two inches in length, and the wings reach near one third 



*•■ Mx.Boys, f \>x,Eiyfiiam. J G»». 5)'aj yi. p>53Z; 



thereon:. 



