364 duck. 



This handsome bird inhabits China and Japan, and we believe 

 also India, as it appears frequently in drawings from the latter; it is 

 a most singular and elegant species, and kept deservedly for the sake 

 of its beauty, by the inhabitants. We do not find that it is near so 

 common in China as many other kinds, unless the Chinese politically 

 hold them dear to the European purchasers ; but they are frequently 

 exposed to sale at Canton, in cages, and the common price is from 

 six to ten dollars the pair ; they are not unfrequently brought to 

 England alive, but require much care, being more tender than our 

 species, nor can they be bred in this country, though they are suffi- 

 ciently familiar. It may not be amiss here to hint, that in any future 

 attempt, care should be taken that both sexes are of Chinese origin; 

 for the female of the Summer American Duck is so like that of 

 China, as to be mistaken for it. This species is called in Japan 

 Kimnodsui; in China Yun-iang; and by the English Mandarin-Duck. 



123 —SUMMER TEAL. 



Anas Circia, hid. Orn.W. 873. Lin. i. 204. Fn. suee. No. 130. ' Gm.Lin.i. 553. 



Scop. i. No. 76. Brim. No. 83. Rail, 148. 7. Will. 291. t. 76. Klein, 132. 8. 

 Querquedula sestiva, Bris. vi, 445. 33. Id. 8vo. ii. 477. 

 Die Sommer Halbente, Bechst. Deuts.u. 669. Id. Ed. 2d. Iv. 1150. Schr. de Berl. 



Nat. vii. 457. Besc. d. Berl. Nut. iv. 604. t. IS. f. 4.— trachea. 

 Sarcelle d'Ete, Bit/, ix. 268. PI. enl. 946. 

 Summer Teal, Gen. Syn.v\. 552. Will. Engl. 378. pi. 76. Albin, ii. pi. 103, 104. 



Orn. Diet, fy Supp. 



THIS is thirteen inches in length, and weighs twelve ounces. 

 Bill dark ; the plumage on the upper parts greyish brown, margined 

 with white on the back ; over the eye a white streak ; cheeks and 

 throat chestnut; fore part of the neck rufous, margined with brown; 

 under parts of the body rufous white, spotted with black on the 

 belly ; scapulars like the back, the larger white down the middle; 

 wing coverts cinereous ; across the wing a white streak ; quills 



