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O R D. III. G E N. XI. D U C K. 



SPE. XVII. TEAL. 



PI. 261. 



Anas crecca. Lin. Syft. I. p. 204. 



La petite Sarcelle. Brif. Orn. VI. p. 436. 



The male teal weighs twelve ounces. The bill is very (lender, and of a 

 dark horn colour: eyes, brown : from the bale of the beak is a broad patch of 

 mining green, with a narrow whitifh edge : head, throat, and part of the neck, 

 bright chefnut colour: fore part of the neck, and breaft, flefh coloured white, 

 richly marked with round black fpots: belly, white, elegantly marked with 

 {lender wavy lines of black on the fides : vent, black : back, and wings, brown 

 grey, enriched with minute lines of black: upper feathers of the lefs wing 

 coverts, chefnut colour ; the reft, white : greater coverts, green, tipped with 

 white, and the outer webs, glofly blue green i quill feathers, dull black : tail 

 feathers, pointed, of a brown colour, and white on the outer edges : legs, dark 

 lead colour. 



The female is brownifh grey; fpotted on the bread; nearly as large as the 

 male ; and has the green patch on the wing, but no creft. 



This bird breeds with us on the fides of frefh waters. It fecretes itfelf 

 in the day, and feeds in the night. If furprifed by a man, or dog, it inftantly 

 plunges under water, and comes up among the cover of flags and rufties. Its 

 not taking wing is the reafon, that it is but little noticed, moft people fuppof- 

 ing it was only a rat that dived. 



