CiafsII, TEAL. 475 



the exterior webs of thofe in the middle green ; the 

 fcapulars are long and narrow, and elegantly flriped 

 with white, afh-color, and black; the tail dufky : 

 the legs lead color. The female has an obfcure white 

 mark over the eye j the reft of the plumage is of a 

 brownifh am- color, not unlike the hen teal, but the 

 wing wants the green fpot, which fufficiently diftin- 

 guifhes thefe birds. 



XXIV. The TEA L. 



Qaerquedula. Gefner a<v. 106. Arta, Krxcka. Faun. Suec. fp, 



Garganei. Aldr. wv. iii. 90. 129. 



Wil. orn. 377. Cimbris Atteling-And. Nor<vegi$ 

 Rati fyn. a<v. 147. Heflelort-And. Da?iis Corn- 

 La petite Sarcelle. Brijfon av„ muniter Krik-And. Brunnich, 



vi. 436. tab. 40. fig. 1. 82, 83. 



RothantI, Pfeiffantl. Kram. 343. Br. Zool. 158. add. plates. 

 Anas Crecca. Lin.fyji. 204. 



'Tp' H E Teal weighs about twelve ounces : the Defer. 



**" length is fiveteen inches ; the breadth twenty- 

 eight. 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 glofiy change- 

 able green, bounded on the lower fide by a narrow 

 white line : the lower part of the neck, the beginning 

 of the back, and the fides under the wings, are ele- 

 gantly marked with waved lines of black and white: 

 the bread and belly are of a dirty white •, the vent 

 black: the tail fharp pointed, and dufky : the coverts 

 of the wings brown : the greater quil feathers dufky, 

 the exterior webs of the leffer marked with a glofly 

 green fpot ; above that another of black, and the tips 



H h white ; 



