DUCK. S5I 



Noticed in Europe as far as Sweden j and is common throughou t 

 Ruffia and Sibiria, as far as Kamtfchatka, at which laft place it i* 

 very frequent. 



Anas crecca, Lin. Syft. i. p. 204. 33.— Faun. Suec. N° ug.—Brun. N" 82. 83. 88. 



—Muller, N° \z6.—Kram. El. p. 343. ig.—Fri/cb. pi. 174.— Georei *~ C °MM°N 

 „ , »■, . LEAL. 



Reije, N° 166. ' 



La petite Sarcelle, Brif. Orn.vl. p. 436. 32. pi. 40. i.—Buf. Oif. ix. p, 265. 



pi. 17. 18. — PI. Enl. 947. 

 Common Teal, Rail Syn. p. 147. A. 6.— Will. Om. p. 377. § 6. pi. 74.— 



Albin t \. pi. 100.— .5?-. ZW. ii. N° 290. — Aril. Zool. p. 577. P. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Mu/l 



CIZE fmall : length fourteen inches: weight twelve ounces. Description. 



Bill black t irides pale hazel : head and neck reddifh bay : 

 fides of the head, behind the eye, green, paffing backwards to the 

 nape j bounded on the under part with a white line: the lower 

 part of the neck behind, the beginning of the back, fcapulars, 

 and fides of the body, white, marked with tranfverfe fine black 

 lines : fore part of the neck and breaft dufky white, marked with 

 roundilh black fpots : belly white : middle of the vent black : 

 wing coverts brown : quills dufky : fpeculum green, bounded, 

 obliquely above with black, and edged with white : tail cuneiform,. 

 brown, edged with white: legs brown. At the entrance of the 

 lungs is a labyrinth. 



The female has the head and. neck dufky white and brown Female. 



mixed : the lower part of the neck, and fides over the wing, 

 brown, edged with duflcy white: wings as in the male: belly 

 white : vent the fame, not black. 



We frequently fee the Teal in our markets along with the Place and 



rrr ., , Man-neks. 



Wild. 



