Cuass IL 
TEAL DUCK. 
thers edged on their exterior sides and tipt with 
white. 
- In many places these birds are called the 
Summer Teal. : 
Anas Crecea. A. speculo ala- 
rum viridi, linea alba supra 
infraque oculos. Lath. Ind. 
orn. 872. id. Syn. vi. 551. 
id. Sup. i. 276. id. Sup. ii. 
360. 
Querquedula. Gesner av. 106. 
Garganei. Aldr. av. iii. 90. 
Wil. orn. 377. 
Rau Syn. av. 147. 
La petite Sarcelle. Brisson av. 
vi. 436. tab. 40. fig. 1. Hist. 
Rothantl, Pfeiffantl. Kram. 
343. 
Spiegel-Entlein. Frisch. 1.174. 
Anas Crecca. Gm. Lin. 532. 
Arta, Kreecka. Faun. Suec. 
sp. 129. 
Cimbris Atteling-And. Nor- 
279 
29. TEAL. 
vegis Hestelort-And. Danis — 
Communiter Krik - And. 
Brunnich, 82, 83. 
Br. Zool. 158. add. plates. 
Arct. Zool. 11. 305. 
d ots. ix. 265. Pl. Enl. 947. 
‘THE male teal weighs about twelve ounces : 
the female, nine ; the length is fourteen inches ; 
the breadth twenty-three. The bill is black ; 
the head, and upper part of the neck, are of a 
deep bay; from the bill to the hind part of the 
head is a broad bar of glossy changeable green, 
bounded on the lower side. by a narrow white 
line; the lower part of the neck, the beginning 
of the back, and the sides under the wings, are 
elegantly marked with waved lines of black and 
white ; the breast and belly are of a dirty white ; 
DeEscrir- 
TION. 
