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 The Teal Querquedula. /ft/hi^^^ 



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ITS Weight is twelve Ounces ; Length from the End of the Bill: to the End- of the 

 Tail iixteen Inches and a quarter ; Breadth between the Wings when extended is 

 twenty four Inches ; this next to the Summer "Tealy is the leaft of all the Duck kind ; its 

 Bill is broad, black, and fomething refledled upward j the Eyes from white incline to a 

 hazel Colour, and the Noftrils are of an Oval Figure j the Top of the Head, Throat, and 

 upper part of the Neck are of a dark bay or ipadiccous Colour j from the Eyes on each 

 Side to the Back of the Head, is extended a Line of fhining green, and between thefe 

 Lines on the back of the Head, a black Spot intervenes ; under the Eyes a white Line 

 feparates the black from the red ; the Feathers invefting the lower Side of the Neck, the 

 Beginning of the Back, and the Sides under the Wings are curioufly varied wisrh tranfverfe 

 waved Lines of white and black ; the Region of the Craw in fome is yellowifh, elegant- 

 ly fpotted with black Spots, fo fituate as to refemble Scales ; the Breaft and Belly are of a 

 fordid white or grey Colour, and under the Rump is a black Spot encompafied with a 

 yellowifl:i Colour. 



Each Wing hath above twenty five Quills, of thefe the outer moft: ten are brown, the 

 next five have white Tips, and under the white the exterior Web of the Feather is black j 

 in the fixteenth begins the green, and takes up fo much of the Feather as is black in the 

 precedent three ; the exterior Web of the twenty third is black, with fome yellownefs on 

 the Edges j the covert Feathers of the black Quills have white Tips, and the green ones 

 have Tips of a redifh yellow, elfe the Wings are all. over brown or dusky ; the Tail is 

 {harp pointed, three Inches long, made up of fixteen Feathers of a brown or dulky Co- 

 lour. 



The Legs and Feet are of a pale dufky Colour, the Membrane connecling the Toes are 

 black ; and the innermoft Toe the leaft: The back Toe hath no Fin annexed ; the Wind-* 

 Pipe in the Cock is furniftied with a Labyrinth, but in the Hen there is nonp.. 



The Female differs from its Male, in the fame Manner as the Wild Duck does fronx 

 the Mallard, not having any green or red on the Head, nor black about its Rump, nor. 

 thofe fine variegated Feathers of black and white on the Sides. 



This Bird for the delicate Tafte of its Flefh, and the wholefome Nourifhmenc it af- 

 fords the Body, doth delervedly challenge the firft Place among thofe of its Kind. 



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