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QUERQUEDULA CRECCA. 



Qner. Mas. — Capite colloque castaneis, fascia occipitali viricli. 



Quer. Fem. — Brunnea, marginibus pennarum suturatioribus ; subtus alba. 



COMMON TEAL. 



Teal, with the head and neck chesnut, with a green occipital fascia. 

 Fem. brown teal, with the margin of the feathers lighter; below white. 



IN. IN. 



Length 14± Tarsi 1 l-Cth 



Bill 1 5-12ths Middle toe If 



Male: head, cheeks, and neck chesnut; from the eye to the occiput passes a band of metallic 

 green, bordered by a stripe of yellowish ; below white ; the breast dotted with black ; the scapulars, 

 back, and flanks white undulated with black ; wing coverts brown ; quills hoary fuscous ; speculum 

 metallic green, bounded above and below by velvet black ; lateral tail coverts with a band of black. 



Fem. : brown, with the edge of the feathers lighter ; below yellowish white ; speculum green, 

 without the black edging ; crown brown. 



Querquedula crecca Steph. S/i. Zool. 12. 146. 



Anas crecca Linn. Syst. 1 . 264. 



Gmel. Syst. 1. 532. 



Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 672. 



Common Teal Perm. Arct. Zool. 2. 577. 



Green-winged Teal Wits. Am. Orn. 8. 106, pi. 70. fig. 40. 



Petite sareelle Stiff. Ois. 9. 265. 



Canard sareelle d' H'tvcr Temm. Man. d' Orn. 2. 846. 



Trachea Linn. Trans, vol. 4, tab. 12, fig. 1. 



Breeds in most marshy lakes in the north of Europe, America, Asia, and the British Isles ; 

 migrates southwards during winter, when it frequents almost entirely fresh water. Mr. Selby, in 

 his " Illustrations of British Ornithology," mentions that he is inclined to think that our indigenous 

 broods seldom quit the immediate neighbourhood of the place in wdiich they were bred. The nest 

 is formed of grass, and it lays from eight to ten eggs of a whitish colour. 



Trachea with the tube largest immediately below the glottis, then contracted, then expanded, 

 and gradually lessening to the inferior larynx, which is similar in form to that of Anas Boschas. 



