186 ORNAMENTAL WATERFOWL. 
from information recently received, I have reason to believe 
that this Teal and the Raffles Teal are possessed and bred 
by two amateurs on the Continent. 
Male.—Head rich brown, black on the crown; neck 
glossed with green and purple ; the eye encircled from the front 
with a large crescent-shaped patch of white; breast and neck 
reddish, marked regularly with curves of whity-brown, giving 
the plumage a spotted appearance ; wings beautiful blue ; wing- 
bar white and green; shoulders pale blue; bill blackish slate 
colour; feet yellow; tail pointed, and extending a couple of 
inches beyond the wings. 
Female.—Head and neck dusky slate colour ; markings 
on back and belly less distinct ; no white crescent on the face. 
The female greatly resembles that of Q. cyanoptera, but is 
somewhat smaller, with the bill narrower. 
Young.—In immature birds the bill is of a brownish- 
green tint. Young females have the legs and bill very pale 
lead-colour. 
Egg.—Resembles that of Q. crecca, but a trifle more 
yellow ; six to thirteen in number. May—June. 
CINNAMON TEAL, RAFFLES’S TEAL. 
(Quergquedula cyanoptera. FPetrocyanea raffiest ). 
This bird, as its English name implies, is readily dis- 
tinguished by the rich cinnamon brown of its general plumage, 
which, with the blue shoulder, renders it unmistakable. It is 
as yet very little known in our bird markets. 
Sclater and Hudson state that this Teal has an exceedingly 
wide distribution in America, being found from California in 
the Northern Continent down to the Straits of Magellan and 
the Falkland Islands in the south. Its fine, strongly contrasted 
