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GAECtAiXEY teal. 



SUMMER TEAL. GARGANEY. GARGANEY DUCK. AFRICAN TEAL. 



Anas querquedula, ...... Lnnrjeos. 



Querquedula circia, ....... Siephexs. 



Sarcette (Fete, ....... Teiqiixce. 



Anas — -A Duck. Querquedula — A water-fowl called a Teal. 



The Garganey is one of onr most elegant and chastely coloured Ducks, and from its 

 usually appearing in this country only during the spring and summer mouths, and 

 occasionally breeding with us, it has obtained the name of Summer Teal. Mr. Tarrell 

 states that he has seen specimens as late as October, and Mr. Knox says that immature 

 birds are not unfrequenfly met with in winter, on the coast of Sussex, but that adidts, 

 especially males, are rare. 



It has been obtained in Cornwall, but rarely; two occurrences are noted by "W. P. 

 Cocks, Esq., in "The Naturalist," vol. L, p. 138. Iu Devon also rarely. In Essex; in 

 Hertfordshire, near Tring, where several specimens were procured by J. "Williams, Esq., 

 of Tring Park, at the end of March, in 1849. It has also occurred in Kent, Lincolnshire, 

 and Xorfolk, where it sometimes breeds ; as well as in Suffolk and Sussex, as stated above. 

 Of its occurrence in our more northern counties we have no record. 



In Scotland six specimens were shot in Stirlingshire, in March, 1841, some of which 

 came into the hands of Edward Clarke, M. D. It is also said to visit the Orkney Islands. 



In Ireland it is very rare, but has been procured in the counties of Cork, Down, one 

 having been seen on Strangford Lough; King's County, and Westmeath. 



It inhabits France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and Siberia; and 

 is met with in the Islands of the Mediterranean, and across the Continent of Asia to 

 India. It has also been procured from Tunis, in Africa. 



The winter quarters of the Garganey appear to be still unknown. It seems to migrate 

 northward in the spring, for the purpose of incubation, returning south for the winter 

 as autumn approaches. 



