Class II. GARGANEY DUCK. 



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Anas Querquedula. A. ma- 

 cula alarum viridi, linea al- 

 ba supra oculos. Lath. Ind. 

 orn. 8/2. id. Syn. vi. 550. 

 id. Sup. ii. 360. 



La Sarcelle. Belon av. 175. 



^uerquedvila varia. Gesner av. 

 107. 



Scavolo, Cercevolo, Garganel- 

 lo, Aldr. av. iii. 89, gO. 



JFiL orn. 377- 



Querquedula prima Aldr. 

 Raii Syn. av. 148.* 



La Sarcelle. Brisson av. vi. 



427. tab. 39. Hist, d'ois. 



ix. 260. PL Enl. 946. 

 Krickantl. Kra7n. 343. 

 Anas Querquedula. Gtn. Lin. 



531. 

 Faun. Suec.sp. 128. 

 Kriech-Ente. Frisch, ii. 176. 

 Norvegis Krek-And. Quibusd, 



Saur-And. Brunnich, 81. 

 Scopoli, No. 75. 

 Br. Zool. 158. Tab. Q. Q. 



Arct. Zool. ii. 304. 



Garga- 



NEY. 



TION. 



JL HE length of this species is seventeen inches; Descrip- 

 the extent twenty-eight. The bill is of a deep 

 lead color ; the crown of the head is dusky, 

 marked with oblong streaks ; on the chin is a 

 large black spot ; from the corner of each eye is 

 a long white line, that points to the back of the 

 neck ; the cheeks and the upper part of the neck 

 are of a pale purple, marked with minute ob- 



* Mr. Ray, in his Syn. av. 147. describes a duck under the 

 name of Phaseas ; in Yorkshire it is called the widgeon : he 

 says, the head and neck are brown, spotted with triangular 

 black marks : the body, wings, and tail, dusky, edged with a 

 paler color : on the wings is a double line of white ; belly white j 

 bill and legs blue. We suspect it to be a young bird of this 

 species, but wait for further information before we can deter- 

 mine it. 



