ANAS QUERQUEDULA. 



GARGANET. 



Generic Character. See Anas Cygnus (ferus.) 

 Synonyms. 



Anas Querquedula. Lin, Syji, i,p, 203. 32. Ind, 



Orn. z, p. 872. 99. 

 Garganey. Br, ZooL 2. 2.%^, tah, 101. lb. fol. 158. 



tab, ^ g. Ar5i, Zool 2. p. 576. O. 



X^//?. tSjy/^. 6. /). 550. 87. M?;?/, 



Orn, Di5i. Vol, 1. Bewick's Br, 



Birds, Pi. 2, p, 336. 



A h I S elegant fpecies weighs nearly eighteen ounces ; it 

 is about feventeen inches in length, and thirty in breadth ; bill 

 fmall ; irides reddifh hazel ; legs flender. A figure of the 

 female will appear in a fubfequent number. 



It is a fcarce fpecies, and is never met with in numbers j 

 we have received it from the fens of Ely, as late as the four- 

 teenth of April in the prefent year, from which it fhould feem 

 probable, that it breeds there, but we have not heard of its 

 neft having been found. From the decoys it is fometimes fent 

 under the name of Summer Teal ; it has the manners of the 

 common Teal, but fties higher, and when on wing utters a 

 humming noife. 



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