554 



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K. 



90. 



AMERICAN T. 



American Teal, Arft. Zool. N° 504. — Phil. Trait/. Ixii. p. 419.— Bruit. N 8 130. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. *~T y HE head and upper part of the neck are of a fine deep bay : 

 from each eye to the hind head a changeable broad green bar : 

 beneath the eye a faint white line : fore part of the neck and breaft 

 fpotted with black : over each flioulder a lunated white bar : 

 back waved black and white, inclining to brown on the rump-: 

 wing coverts brown : fpeculum green : legs dufky. 



The female reddiln cinereous brown, fpotted with black : the 

 wings like thofe of the male. 



This is found in America, from Carolina to Hudforis Bay : 

 breeds in the laft : has from five to feven young at a time. 

 Found in the woods, about fmall ponds of water. Retires fouth 

 in autumn. Mr. Pennant feems to think this very like, if net 

 the fame with the Summer 'Teal of Willughby. 



Ff MALI. 

 PtftCI. 



91. 



ST. DOMINGO 

 T. 



Description. 



Anas Dominica, Lin. Syjt. i. p. 201. 22. 



La Sarcelle de St. Domingue, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 472. 42. pi. 41. fig. 2. 



rouffe a loDgue queue, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 283. 



■ de la Gouadaloupe, PL Enl. 968. 



Chilcanauhtli, Raii Syn. p. 177. — Cokanauhtli, id. p. 176. (female) ? 



HIS is a fmall fpecies, being under twelve inches in length. 

 The bill is fcarce an inch and a half Ions; ; colour black : 

 the fore part of the head and throat are foot-colour ; hind part 

 and neck rufous : back, fcapulars, rump, upper tail coverts, and 

 fides, the fame -, the middle of the feathers blackifh : breaft and 



belly 



