duck. 36-3 



122 —CHINESE TEAL. 



Anas galericuluta, Ind.Orn.W. 871. Lin. i. 200. Gm. Lin.'u 539. Mus. Lev. t. 10. 



Shaw's Zool. v. 21. pi. 885. 

 Qnerquedula Sinensis, Bris. vi. 450. Id. 8vo. ii. 478. Gerin. v. t. 599. 

 Kinmodsui, Kcempf. Jap. 129. pi. 10. f. 3. 

 Sarcelle de la Chine, Bvf. ix. 276. pi. 19. PI. enl. 805, 800. 

 Chinese Teal, Gen. Syn. vi. 548. Edw. pi. 102. 



THIS is somewhat less than a Wigeon. Bill dull red ; irides 

 hazel ; hind part of the head and part of the neck full of feathers, 

 and elongated into a flatfish crest; top of the head, down the middle 

 of the crown, greenish black ; between the bill and eye pale rufous; 

 behind the eye white, passing backwards into the crest, which is dark 

 glossy green ; the feathers round the upper part of the neck, all 

 round, are long and pointed, as in the cock, and dull orange; lower 

 part of the neck and upper part of the breast chestnut ; at the bend 

 of the wing three transverse black streaks, and two of white alter- 

 nate ; scapulars black, margined with white; back and rump dusky 

 brown, glossed in some parts with blue green ; on the wings a blue 

 u;reen speculum, bounded below with white ; quills dusky brown, 

 edged near the ends with pale grey ; one of the second quills much 

 broader on one web than on the other, and curves upwards in an 

 elegant manner, standing upright, when the wing is closed ; the 

 broader web is pale brownish red, tipped with black, the under, or 

 narrow one, dusky black ; tail pointed, dull brown, fringed with 

 blue green ; sides of the body brownish cream, transversely marked 

 with fine lines of black ; and over the thighs barred black and white ; 

 the lower part of the breast and belly white ; legs orange. 



The female is not unlike that of the Summer Duck, but has two 

 bars of white on the wing ; the breast seems more clouded with 

 brown, and the spots are not of a triangular shape, but rounded ; 

 however, there appears at first sight very little difference between 

 the females of the two species. 



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