354 duck. 



Inhabits the Coasts of Denmark and Norway ; common about 

 Christianstadt, also Lapmark, frequenting both sea and fresli waters; 

 extends also to India. 



One, supposed a female. Bill bluish black ; head, neck, and 

 breast, brownish cream-colour, approaching to dun ; back and wings 

 chocolate, with a greyish tinge ; feathers of the back margined with 

 light rufous ; across the wing a series of dusky red feathers; upper 

 tail coverts the same ; quills and tail like the back, but plain ; 

 beneath from the breast light rufous red ; legs blue, with dusky 

 black webs. 



In one of these, among General Hardwicke's drawings, the head, 

 neck, and breast, are fine chestnut brown ; middle of the belly 

 white ; beyond this brown ; vent white; outer webs of all the quills 

 white for nearly the whole of the length, ends dusky; tail pale ash- 

 colour. — M. Temininck joins this with the Tufted Duck, as a bird 

 in incomplete feather. 



112.— AFRICAN TEAL. 



Anas Africans, Ind. Om. ii. 875. Gin. Lin. i. 522. 



leucophthalnios, Tern. Man. 572. Id. Ed. 2d. 87G. 



Sarcelle d'Egypte, Buf. ix. 273. PI. enl. 1000. 



Bruine Duiker Eend, Sepp. iv. t. p. 323. 



African Teal, Gen. Syn. vi. 555. Orn. Diet. Supp. Lin. Trans, xi. p. 178. 



LENGTH sixteen inches. Bill dusky ; head, neck, breast, and 

 belly, deep bright rufous brown ; on the lower part of the breast a 

 patch of white ; the rest of the plumage black ; above and across 

 the wing a bar of white. The female differs in being more dull, 

 and the breast waved with brown. 



Inhabits Egypt, and seems much allied to the Lapmark Duck, 

 if not the same. Several of these were bought in Leadenhall Market, 

 in London ; said to have been taken in Lincolnshire.* 



* Mr. Bullock— See Lin. Trans. 



