214 ‘THE COMMON TEAL. 
I find no record of the males of this species undergoing 
a change of plumage at the close ofthe breeding season, like 
that already described in the case of the ducks, and I have 
myself had no opportunity of learning, by personal observation, 
whether it occurs in their case or not; but despite the general 
silence on the subject, I presume that it must. 
