Cuass If. 
Anas Querquedula. A. ma- 
cula alarum viridi, linea al- 
ba supra oculos. Lath. Ind. 
orn. 872. id. Syn. vi. 550. 
td. Sup. ii. 360. 
La Sarcelle. Belon av. 175. 
Querquedula varia. Gesner av. 
107. 
Scavolo, Cercevolo, Garganel- 
lo. Aldr. av. iii. 89,.90. 
Wil. orn. 377. 
Querquedula prima 
Rau Syn. av. 148.* 
Aldr. 
GARGANEY DUCK. 
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La Sarcelle. Brisson av. vi. 28. Garca- 
427. tab. 39. ‘Hist. dois. 
ix. 260. Pl. Enl. 946. 
Krickantl. Kram. 343. 
Anas Querquedula. Gm. Lin. 
531. 
Faun. Suec. sp. 128. 
Kriech-Ente. Frisch, ii. 176. 
Norvegis Krek-And. Quabusd. 
. Saur-And. Brunnich, 81. 
Scopoli, No. 75. 
Br. Zool. 158. Tab. Q. 9. 
Arct. Zool. ii. 304. 
Tue length of this species is seventeen inches; Descrir- 
TION, — 
the extent twenty-eight. The bill is of a deep 
lead color; the crown of the head is dusky, 
marked with oblong streaks; on the chin is a 
large black spot; from the corner of each eye is 
a long white line, that points to the back of the 
neck ; the cheeks and the upper part of the neck 
are of a pale purple, marked with minute ob- 
* Mr. Ray, in his Syn. av. 147. describes a duck under the 
name of Phaseas; in Yorkshire it is called the widgeon: he 
says, the head and neck are brown, spotted with triangular 
black marks: the body, wings, and tail, dusky, edged with a— 
NEY: 
paler color: on the wings is a double line of white ; belly white ; 2 rs 
bill and legs blue. We suspect it to be a young bird of this — 
species, but wait for further information before we candetere | 
mine it. 
