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reddifti , the middle part of each fingle feather being black. The Chin is white, with 

 a tincture of red. The Back of a darkbrown, with tranfverfe lines and beds of a pale 

 red. The Breaft of a fordid white, and the Belly yet darker. 



This Bird may be diftinguilhedfrom all others of the D«^-kindby the length of the 

 middle feathers of its Tail as by certain and charatteriftic note. 



$. VI. 



TheTeal, Querquedula fecunda, Aldrov. p. 209. 



THis,next to the Summer-Teal^ the leaft in the Dttc^-kmd 5 weighing only twelve 

 ounces, extended in length from the tip of the Bill to the end^ of the Feet fif- 

 teen inches $ in breadth, meafuring between the ends of the Wings fpread, twenty 

 four. Its Bill is broad, black, at the end fomething reflected upwards: The Eyes 

 from white incline to hazel-coloured. The Nofthrils are of an oval figure. The top 

 of the Head, Throat, and upper part of the Neck of a dark bay or fpadiceous co- 

 lour. From the Eyes on each fide to the back of the Head is extended a line of a 

 dark, mining green. Between thefe lines on the back of the Head a black fpot inter- 

 venes. Under the Eyes a white line feparates the black from the red. The feathers 

 inverting the lower fide of the Neck, the beginning of the Back, and the fides under 

 the Wings are curioufly varied with tranfverfe waved lines of white and black. 

 The region of the Craw in fome is yellowifh, elegantly fpotted with black fpots, 

 fo fituate as fomewhat to refemble fcales. The Breaft and Belly are of fordid 

 white or grey colour. Under the Rump is a black fpot ertCompaffed with a yello wifti 



colour. 



Each Wing hath above twenty five quils. Of thefe the outmoft ten are brown 5 

 the next five have white tips 5 under the white the exteriour Web of the Feather is 

 black: In the fixteenth begins the green, and takes up fo much of the feather as we 

 faid was black in the precedent three, The exteriour Web of the twenty third is 

 black, with fome yellownefson the edges. The covert-feathers of the black quils 

 have white tips, of the green ones have tips of a reddifti yellow : Elfe the Wings are 

 all over brown [ dusky.] The Tail is {harp-pointed, three inches long, made up of 

 lixteeen feathers, of a brown or dusky colour. 



The Legs and Feet are of a pale dusky colour, the membrane connecting the Toes 

 black : The inmoft Toe the leaft. The Back-toe hath no fin annexed. The Wind- 

 pipe in the Cock is furnifhed with a Labyrinth : in the Hen we found none. 



The Female differs from its Male in the fame manner almoft as the wild Duck, does 

 from the Mallard, having neither red nor green on the Head, nor black about its 

 Rump : Nor thofe fine feathers variegated with white and black lines on ttte^back and 

 fides. 



This Bird for the delicate tafte of its flefh, and thewholfom nourifhment it affords 

 the body, doth defervedly challenge the firft place among thofe of its kind. 



§. vil 



The Garganey : Querquedula prima Aldrov. t.3.p. 209. Kernel at Stwbnrgh. 



jN bignefs it fomething exceeds the common Teal 5 yet that Mx.WiUughby defcribed 

 J weighed no more than the common Teal vi%. twelve ounces. Its length from 

 Bill to Claws was feventeen inches: Its breadth from tip to tip of the Wings ex- 

 tended twenty eight. For the (hape of its body it was very like to the common Teal »* 

 Its Bill alfo black : Its Legs and Feet livid with a certain mixture of green, [ Mr. Wit- 

 hghby hath it from dusky inclining to a lead-colour. ] The back-toe fmall. 



The crown of the Head is almoft wholly black, but the Bill befprinkled with fmall 

 reddifh-white fpecks. From the inner corner of the Eye on each fide begins a broad 

 white line, which pairing above the Eyes' and Ears is produced to the back of the 

 Head, till they do almoft meet. The Cheeks beneath thefe white lines and the be- 

 ginning of the Throat were of a lovely red colour, as if darned with red wine, ha- 

 ving white fpots or lines along the middle of each feather about their (hafts. Under 

 the Chin at the rife of the lower Mandible is a great black fpot. The whole Breaft is 

 curioufly varied with black and dufty, tranfverfe, arcuate [elliptical] waved lines in 

 each feather. The Belly in fome is white, in others tinctured with yellow : But 



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