ISO 



TEAL DUCK. 



Class II. 



Female. 



Summer 

 Teal. 



the first beautifully spotted with black ; the 

 vent black ; the tail sharp pointed, and dusky ; 

 the coverts of the wings brown ; the greater 

 quil feathers dusky; the exterior webs of the 

 lesser marked with a glossy green spot ; above 

 that another of black, and the tips white ; the 

 irides w^hitish ; the legs dusky. The female is 

 of a brownish ash color, spotted with black ; 

 and has a green spot on the wing like the male. 

 By the description Mr. WiUughby has left of 

 the Summer Teal, p. 378. we suspect that it dif- 

 fers not in the species from the common kind, 

 only in sex. Limictiis^ hath placed it among 

 the birds of his country ; but leaves ^ blank jn 

 the place of its residence ; and hath evidently 

 copied Mr. Willughhys imperfect description 

 of it; and to confirm our suspicion that he has 

 followed the error'j' of our countryman ; we ob- 

 served that a bird sent us from the Baltic sea, 

 under the title of anas ctrcia, the Summer Teal 

 of Limiceus, w^as no other than the female of 

 our teal. 



* Faun. Suec. sp. 130. 



f This error is continued in Gmelins edition of Linnceus. 

 Ed. 



