duck. 366 



brown ; speculum green,* edged with black, bounded below with 

 white; legs bluish. The female smaller; above cinereous brown, 

 feathers of the back edged with rufous ; cheeks, throat, and under 

 parts, white; over the eye a white .line; wing coverts and scapulars 

 grey brown, edged with rufous ; the rest of the wing as in the male, 

 but no black in the speculum. 



Buffon seems dubious of its being distinct, yet gives a full 

 account of its remaining in France, throughout the summer, and 

 breeding there, in all respects like the Teal ; and he adds, that the 

 male, when the time of incubation is over, becomes so like the 

 female, as not to be distinguished, but regains its plumage after 

 January. 



This bird has given rise to various opinions. It is thought by 

 some to be the young of the Common Teal, by others that of the 

 Garganey, which is rarely seen here beyond the month of April ; nor 

 do we know for certain that either of them has bred in England, except 

 perhaps in the more northern parts. M. Temminck thinks the 

 Summer Teal to be the Garganey in complete plumage, and this 

 may now be fully ascertained from the trachea of the male, which 

 differs so much in the Garganey and Summer Teal,f as to furnish an 

 unerring guide to those who may have an opportunity of observing 

 the same in a recent state, and serve at least to prove that the Summer 

 Teal cannot be the Common Teal in any stage of life. 



124.— GARGANEY DUCK. 



Anas Querquedula, Ind. Orn. ii. 872. L\n. i. 203. Fn. suec. No. 128. Gm. Lin. i. 

 531. Scop. i. No. 75. Brim. No. 8. Midler, No. 125. Kram. 343. 18. Frisch, 

 t. 176. Bris. vi. 427. t. 39. f. 1,2. Id. Svo. ii. 473. Raii, 148. 8. Will. 291. 

 t. 74. Klein, 132. 8. Fn.arag.1h. Fn. Helv. Tern. Man. 545. Id. Ed. 2d. 845. 



Anas Querquedula major mas, Geri7i. v. t. 595. 



- — Circia, Sepp, Vog. ii. 182. t. 94, 95. 



Phascas forte Gesnero D.Johnson, Rait, 147. A. 4.— female. Will. 2S9. 



Die Knackente, Bechst. Deuts.W. 662. Id. Ed. 2d. iv. p. 1135. 



* Linnaeus in his Faun, suecica, calls it blue. •)• See Lin. Trans. V. iv. pi. 13. f. 1, 2. 



