( 5* ) 



ORD. III. GEN. XI. DUCK. 



SPE. XVI. GARGANEY. 

 PL 260. 



Anas querquedula. Lin. Syft. I. p. 203. 

 La Sarcelle. BriJ. Orn. VI. p. 427. 



This bird is larger than the teal, weighing near a pound. Bill, dark lead 

 colour : eyes, dark brown : crown of the head, purple brown : from the eye is 

 a long white line, pointing to the back of the neck : throat, cheek, and neck, 

 pale red purple, minutely fpotted with white : breaft, brown, marked with 

 femicircular bars of black : belly, white : back, dark brown, with reddifh 

 brown edges to the feathers : wing coverts, grey, tipped with white : quills, 

 dull black : fcapulars, long, narrow, and white, beautifully ftriped with black 

 and pale grey: tail, dull black: legs, lead colour: webs, black. 



The female is like the hen teal, but has not the green fpot in the wing : it 

 has likewife a faint white mark from the eye, refembling that of the male. 



This is not a common fpecies, but is met with fometimes in the winter, 

 ufing the fame haunts, and having the fame manners as the teal. 



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