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Querquedula crecca. Common Teal. 



Anas Crecca, lAnnmus, S. N. i. p. 204 (1766). 

 Querquedula crecca, Macg. v. p. 48; Gray,^. 194; Gould, 



V. pi. 16; Harting, p. 62; Dresser, vi. p. 507. 

 Anas crecca, Naum. xi. p. 701 ; Hewitson, p. 410 ; Yarr. 



ed. 3, iii. p. 281 ; id. ed. 3, iii. p. 282. 

 The Teal, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 185. 



Crecca, probably from its note. Of. Crex, q. v., and the German Krieoh- 

 Ente, old English Cracker = Pintail. 



Uesident and generally distributed throughout the United 

 Kingdom. It inhabits the Palsearctic and Nearctic Regions, 

 and is abundant in winter in India. 



[Querquedula bimaculata. Bimaculated Duck. 



Anas bimaculata, Keyserling and Blasius, Wirbelth. 

 Eur. p. 227 (1840). 



Anas glocitans, Macg. y. p. 42; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 260. 



Querquedula bimaculata. Gray, p. 194. 



The Bimaculated Duck, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 165. 



Bimaculata = marked with two spots, maculce. 



A spurious species, described from a cross between a Teal 

 and a Wild Duck.J 



Querquedula carolinensis. American Geebn- 

 wiNGED Teal. 



Anas carolinensis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 533 

 (1788). 



Anas carolinensis, Harting, p. 63. 



Carolinensis = from Carolina, in North America. 



One was obtained near Kingsbridge, South Devon, Nov. 

 23, 1879, and another in Hurstbourne Park, Hants, more 

 than forty years ago (' Zoologist,' 1880, p. 70) . Abundant 

 in North America. 



