120 



Length 

 Bill . . 



Tarsi . 



18£ 

 H 



n 



Inner toe 1| 



Middle toe 1* 



Outer toe 



H 



Male : head with a long occipital crest and crown purplish green ; above the eye a broad band 

 of white ; throat, cheeks, and remainder of the neck bright reddish ferruginous, the shaft of each 

 feather lighter ; breast bright purple ; back, tail, and wings hair brown ; scapulars with the outer 

 webs black ; the inner ones wdiite ; one tertiary prolonged and expanded on each side, prominent 

 over the back ; on the lower part of the breast a broad band of black not meeting in front, on 

 which there are one or two narrow ones of white ; flanks ferruginous, beautifully undulated \\ itli 

 narrow bands of black ; belly, vent, and under tail coverts white ; bill and legs orange. 



Fern. : similar to the summer duck A. sponsa, but may be distinguished from it (according to 

 Latham) by having two bars of white on the wing, and by the white spots on the breast being 

 round instead of triangular, 



Anas galericuhzta Linn. Syst. 1. 206. 



Gmcl. Syst. 1. 539. 



Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 871. 



Querqucdula sinensis Briss. Orn. (>. 150. 



Chinese Teal Edn: Gka. pi. 102. 



Lath. Gen. Syn. G. 548. 

 SarceUe de la C 'hine Buff. Ois. 'J. -270. 



Inhabits China and Japan, where it is kept (as in this country), for the sake of its beauty, in a 

 state of domestication. Nothing is known of its habits in a wild state. 



AIA SPONSA. 



.J/. Mas. — Capite colloque viridibus; gutture albo; 



A\. Fern. — Brunnen, rostro cingnloque occulari etiam ad basin rostri, et fascia alis allii*. 



SUMMER DUCK. 



Mas. head and upper part of the neck metallic green ; throat white ; crest long. 

 Fern, dark brown, with the belly, space round the eye, and bill wdiitc ; one white band across 

 the wing. 



Length , 



BUI . . , 



20 



1^ 



Tarsi 



Middle toe 2 



1^ 



