54* D u e K. 



36. 

 ■*• CHINESE D t Al,as galericulats, Lin. Syft. r. p. 206. 4?. 



La Sarcelle de la Chine, j?rj/l Orn. vi. p. 450. 34.— -i?*/". Oi/i ix*. p» 



276. pi. 19.— Pl.Enl. 805, 806. 

 Chinefe Teal, Ediv. pi. ioz. — Kcempf. Japan, p. 129. pL 10. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. 'T 1 H I S is fomewhat lefs than a Wigeon. The bill of a dull 

 red : irides hazel : the hind part of the head, and part of 

 the neck, full of feathers, and elongated into a flattifli crefl: 

 the top of the head, down the middle of the crown, of a green- 

 ifh black : between the bill and eye pale rufous ; behind the 

 eye white, paffing backwards into the creft, which is of a dark 

 glofiy green : the feathers round the upper part of the neck, 

 all round, are long and pointed, like thofe a cock, and of a 

 dull orange-colour : the lower part of the neck, and upper part 

 of the breaft, chefnut : at the bend of the wing are three tranf- 

 verfe ftreaks of black, and two of white, alternate : the fcapu* 

 lars are black, margined with white : the back and rump dufky 

 brown, glofled in fome parts with blue green : on the wings a 

 fpeculum, or glofTy patch of blue green, bounded below with 

 white : the quills dufky brown, edged near the ends with pale 

 grey : one of the fecond quills much broader on one web 

 than on the other, and curves upwards in an elegant manner, 

 ftanding upright when the wing is clofed ; the broader web of a 

 fine pale brownilh red, tipped with black ; the under, or nar- 

 rower- one, dufky black : the tail pointed, of a dufky brown,, 

 fringed with blue green : the fides of the body of a brownilh 

 cream-colour, tranfy.erfely crofled with fine black lines : the 



feathers 



