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with blacky and has a green fpot on the wing 

 like the male. 



By the defcription Mr. Willughby has left of Summer 

 the Summer Teal, p. 378. we fufpecl that it differs Tsal. 

 not in the fpecies from the common kind, only in 

 fex. Linnaeus hath placed it among the birds of 

 his country * ; but leaves a blank in the place of 

 its refidence ; and hath evidently copied Mr. Wil- 

 lughby's imperfect defcription of it : and to con- 

 firm our fufpicion that he has followed the error 

 of our countryman ; we obferved that a bird fent 

 us from the Baltic fea, under the title of anas cir- 

 cia, the Summer Teal of Linnaus, was no other 

 than the female of our teal. 



* Fauna Suede a, Jp. 130. 



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