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Head bright glossy green ; spot behind the cnlmen of the bill, throat, and streak towards the 

 back of the neck from the latter white ; collar white; breast with each feather beautifully marked 

 with lunules of black ; vent coverts white undulated with black ; wing spot purplish green, above 

 which is a conspicuous spot of velvet black ; tertiaries very long, with the shaft and a narrow 

 edging exteriorly white, and the edge of the posterior or inner web grey ; quill and tail feathers grey ; 

 upper and under tail coverts black ; vent buff, anteriorly to which there is a band of black ; feet and 

 bill black. 



Anas Javancnsis Veill. En. Method. Orn. 1. 160. 



Sarcelle de /' He de Java Buff. Ois. torn. xvii. p. 395. 



Inhabits Java. I have never seen but one specimen of this beautiful species ; it is in Lord Derby's 

 collection at Knowsley, and has been exhibited at one of the Zoological Society's evening meetings. 



QUERQUEDULA GLOCITANS. 



Quer. Mas. — Capite viridi, macula rotundata castanea ante oculari et post OClllari Oinato. 

 (Juer. Fem. — Bmnnea, marginibus pennarum suturatioribus. 



BIMACULATED TEAL. 



Male Teal, with the head green, ornamented with a rounded chesnut patch before and behind 

 the eyes. 



Fem. brown teal, with the margin of the feathers lighter. 



IN. IN. IN. 



Length 15 Bill 1| Tarsi 1 9-20ths 



Male : head and neck green, with a dark chesnut patch before and behind the eyes ; the throat 

 approaching to black ; back and flanks white, undulated with black lines ; breast and abdomen 

 ferruginous, with a few black spots ; wing coverts fuscous ; speculum velvet black, bordered 

 anteriorly with violaceous, posteriorly with white ; quills brown, margined with lighter ; bill, feet, 

 and legs lead-coloured ; the webs black. 



Fem. : slightly smaller than the male ; head and neck light ferruginous, with the crown and 

 base of each feather darker ; abdomen white ; back and flanks fuscous ferruginous, with the base of 

 each feather brown. 



Anas glocitans Tall. Aria Stuck. 1 . 77!), ID. tab. 33, fy. 1 . 



Gmel. S/jst. 1. 526. 



Lath. I, id. Orn. 862. 

 Querquedula glocitans Vig. Lin. Trans, col. xiv. 559. 



Gould, Birds of Europe. 



Bhnaculated Teal Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 602. 



Canard Glousscur J'cill. En. .Method. Orn. 1. 126. 



Said to inhabit Siberia and the neighbourhood of Lake Baikal. One or two specimens only have 

 been met with in England. 



