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QUERQUEDULA CAROLINEXSIS. 



Quer. — Precedent] similis, sed distingueri potest fascid albfi ante alia. 



AMERICAN TEAL. 

 Quer. similar to Q. crecca, but distinguished from it by a white bar on each side of the breast. 



IS. IN. IX. 



Length 15 Bill l| Tarsi 1 



Precisely similar to Q. crecca, with the exception of the under tail coverts, which are black, 

 and in having a white band on each side opposite the point of the Aving. 



Anas Carolinensia Gmel. SyH. Not. 1 . 533. 



Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 874. 



Jard. I II /is. Orn. pi. 

 American Teal Pen//. Arc/. Zool. 2. "t84. 



Inhabits America, where it takes the place of the preceding species. 



QUERQUEDULA FORMOSA. 



Quer. — A ertice, gutture, fasciaque ab hoc ad oculos atris, utrinque albo marginato. 



BAIKAL TEAL. 



Teal, with the crown, throat, and a streak proceeding from the latter to the eye black, bounded 

 on each side with white. 



IN. IN. 



Length \b\ Tarsi 1| 



Bill 1 5-)-2ths Middle toe 1 4-5ths 



Male : crown and throat black, with each leather slightly tipped with ferruginous brown ; from 

 the latter proceeds a black waved streak to the eye, bounded on each side by a narrow one of white, 

 and enclosing a patch of fawn-colour ; from the bill through the eye proceeds a broad band of 

 glossy green to the occiput, where it is broadest, and bifurcate below, the centre branch extending 

 down to the back of the neck, the lateral ones curve to the fore neck, but do not meet, the whole 

 bounded by a narrow edging of white ; forepart of the neck bright reddish fawn colour, spotted 

 with black; back brown; lower part of the neck behind black, thickly irrorated with white: 

 flanks the same; belly white ; epulis and coverts brown; middle coverts tipped with brown ; pri- 



