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mary coverts glossy purplish black, tipped with white ; tertiaries long, outer webs black edged 

 with ferruginous ; inner webs light fawn colour ; tail brown ; tail coverts the same, edged with 

 lighter; under tail coverts black, having on the sides anteriorly a broad band of white ; the under 

 coverts bounded laterally with a bar of ferruginous ; bill brown ; legs light yellow ; wing spot 

 bounded anteriorly by brown, posteriorly by white. 

 Fem. : unknown. 



Querquedula formosa Sleph. Sh. Zool. vol. 12. 151 . 



Anas formosa Gmcl. Si/st. Nat. 1 . 523. 



Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. b'6. 

 Baikal Teal Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 557. 



Inhabits Russia and Lake Baikal. (Lath. J Specimens are in the museum of the Zoological 

 Society, brought over by R. Reeves, Esq. in 1832, from China ; and also in our own. We 

 have also very lately succeeded in obtaining the trachea, of which a figure is given : though that of 

 a true teal, it is remarkable for the exceeding small size of the larynginal bulb, and also for a slight 

 approach it makes in form to that of the next genus, Cyanopterus, 



QUERQUEDULA MANILLENSIS. 



Quer. — Genis albis, fascia brunnea occipite ad collum inferiorem tendente. 



MANILLA TEAL. 



Teal, with the cheeks dirty white, with a streak from the occiput to the lower part of the 

 neck, when it expands into a collar, brown. 



IN. 



IN. 



Length 15 Tarsi lg 



Bill 2 Middle toe If 



Allied to Q. formosa ; tertiaries not acuminated, and ferruginous ; breast as in the last ; 

 upper parts of the back olive brown ; tail and rump black glossed with green ; belly white in-orated 

 with black ; middle vent coverts black ; lateral coverts white ; secondary quills with the outer webs 

 brassy green ; coverts white tipped with black ; small coverts black ; quills brown ; bead, neck, 

 and crown dark brown ; cheeks dirty white ; from the occiput proceeds a streak of brown to the 

 lower part of the neck, when it expands into a collar ; bill lead colour ; feet and legs light orange. 



Anas ManiUetma Chnel. Syat. Nat. I 523 



Lath. Tnd. Orn. 2. 876. 



Sareelle ie V Tale de Lucon Bonn. Voy. Ind. 91, pi. 54. 



Manilla Teal Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. ■".57. 



Inhabits the Manillas. Specimens are in our collection, and in thai of the Earl of Derbj 



