366 duck. 



Winter halbente, Bes.d. Berl. Nat.'w. 60. t. 18. f. 6.— the trachea. Naturf. xii. 13C. 

 Sarcelle, Buf. ix. 260. PL enl. 946.— the male. 



Garganey, Gen. Syn.vl 550. Id. Sup. ii. 360. Br. Zool. ii. No. 289. pi. 101. Id. 

 fol. 158. pi. Q. 9. Id. 1812. ii. 277. pi. 46. Art. Zool. ii. p. 576. O. Will. 



Engl. 377. pi. 74. Beicick, ii. pi. in p. 374. Lin. Tr. iv. 108. pi. xiii. f. 2, 3. 



the trachea. Lewin,v\\. pi. 259. Walcot, i. pi. 75. Don. i. pi. 21. Pu/t. Dors. 



p. 21. Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. 



THIS is a beautiful species, and a trifle larger than the Teal ; 

 length seventeen inches, breadth twenty-eight ; weight fourteen 

 ounces. Bill dark lead-colour; irides light hazel ; crown and hind- 

 head dusky brown ; from over the eye a white streak passes to the 

 hindhead ; on the chin a large black spot; cheeks and upper part 

 of the neck pale purple, marked with oblong, minute lines of white, 

 pointing downwards ; breast light brown, with semicircular bars of 

 black; belly white ; lower part of it and vent varied with dusky 

 specks ; wing coverts grey, the lowest tipped with white ; the prime 

 quills are cinereous; the exterior webs of those in the middle grey ; 

 second quills green, forming a speculum ; scapulars long, and nar- 

 row, elegantly striped with ash, white, and black ; tail of fourteen 

 feathers, dusky ; legs lead-colour. 



The female has an obscure mark over the eye ; the rest of the 

 plumage brownish ash, not unlike that of the hen Teal, but the 

 wing wants the green speculum, which sufficiently distinguishes 

 the sexes. 



This species is found in England in the winter, at which time it 

 is also seen in France, migrating northwards as summer advances, 

 but rarely remains here beyond the month of April, about which 

 time it is taken in the decoys of Somersetshire, and called there the 

 Summer Teal.* On the Continent it is noticed as far north as 

 Sweden ; is common throughout Russia and Siberia, as far as Kamt- 

 schatka ; and southward to Italy, and Spain ; on the borders of the 

 Caspian Sea, and from thence to India, where we believe it is known 



* So called in Leonard Baltner's fine drawings of birds on the Rhine, in the collection 

 of Lord Dartmouth. 



