121 



Crown and neck and occipital crest glossy green; line extending from the bill over the eye, 

 another from the lower part of the eye to the occiput, together with the throat, white; neck and 

 upper part of the breast purplish, and sprinkled with spots of white; scapulars, wing coverts, and 

 tail black, beautifully glossed in some lights with green and purple inflections ; on the lower part 

 of the breast is a white bar, posteriorly to which is a black one; flanks yellowish ferruginous, 

 barred and undulated with dusky ; under tail coverts and quills sooty black ; below white ; bill and 

 legs orange. 



Fern. : dusky slate brown, with a space round the eye, a band round the bill, the throat, and 

 belly white ; breast dusky, marked with triangular spots of white ; quills and tail as in the male ; 

 legs and bill dusky. 



A/a sponsa Bote Isis. 1826. 



Dendronessa sponsa Faun. Bo. Am. 2. 446. 



Anas sjwnsa Linn. Sijst. 1 . 207. 



Gmel. Syst. 1. 539. 



Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 871. 



Anas JEstb-a Briss. Orn. 6. 351. pi. 32, Jig. 2. 



Summer Duck Catesb. Carol. 1 . pi. 97. 



Echo. Glea. p. 101. 



Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 546. 



Beau canard, Huppe R'-'ff- Ois. 9. 254. 



Trachea Mont. Orn. die, Sup. fig. 5, et nobis. 



Inhabits America, from Hudson's Bay to Mexico and the Antilles, throughout the whole of which 

 space it breeds, seldom frequenting the sea. It generally makes its nest in decayed trees hanging 

 over the water, laying twelve or thirteen eggs. 



This species is often kept in confinement in this country, and breeds freely, as well as its 

 congener. The inferior larynx is that of the true wading duck, and much resembles in miniature 

 that of the widgeon ; it is, however, more expanded anteriorly, the two ends of the bulb being of 

 equal size. 



QUERQUEDULA JAVANENSIS. 



Quer. — Capite viridi, macula ad basum rostri; gutture et fascia occipital) albis. 



JAVA TEAL. 

 Head green, with a spot at the base of the lull; throat and patch extending to the occiput white. 



Length 18 



/:</>. al 27 



Bill U 



Tarsi 



Middle toe 2 



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