244 ANSERES. 



Yokohama. It has also occurred on the Kuriles, where it is prohably 

 a summer visitor (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, 

 p. 96). Temminck and Schlegal erroneously regarded it as a cross 

 between Anas pmcilorhyncha and Anas boschas, but it is unquestion- 

 ably a good species, whose range extends across China to Mongolia 

 and Eastern Siberia. 



236. ANAS CRECCA. 

 (COMMON TEAL.) 



Anas crecca, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 204 (1766). 



The Teal and the Garganey are the only Japanese Ducks in which 

 the. wing from carpal joint measures less than 7^ inches. In the Teal 

 the outer webs of the outer secondaries are velvet-black, those of the 

 three inner ones metallic emerald-green. 



Figures : Dresser, Birds of Europe, vi. pi. 426. 



The Teal has long been known to occur in the Kurile Islands and 

 in Kamtschatka (Pallas, Zoogr. fiosso-Asiat. ii. p. 263). It breeds 

 in the Kurile Islands (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 

 1882, p. 97) ; winters sparingly in Yezzo (Whitely, Ibis, 1867, p. 207), 

 and abundantly in Southern Japan (Blakiston and Pryer, Ibis, 1878, 

 p. 213). There is a male (Blakiston, April) and a female (Blakiston, 

 November) in the Swinhoe collection from Hakodadi (Swinhoe, Ibis, 

 1877, p. 147), and there are two examples in the Pryer collection 

 from Yokohama. Mr. Ringer has obtained it at Nagasaki, where 

 the examples procured by the Siebold Expedition were doubtless also 

 obtained (Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, p. 127). 

 It has also been recorded from the most southerly group of the 

 Loo-Choo Islands (Stejneger, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 1887, p. 169). 



The breeding-range of the Teal extends from the British Islands 

 across arctic and subarctic Eurasia to the Kurile Islands. 



237. ANAS FORMOSA. 

 (SPECTACLED TEAL.) 



Anas formosa, Georgi, Eeis. Russ. Keichs, i. p. 168 (1775). 



The Spectacled Teal is not one of the larger Ducks (wing from 

 carpal joint 7f to 8 inches). It has a small bill (from frontal feathers 



