ANAS QUERQUEDULA. 
GARGANET. 
Generic Character. See, Anzs Cy gnus (ferus.) 
Synonyms. 
Anas Quer^uedula. Lin, Syft, 1.^.203.32. Ind, 
Orn. 2. p: 872* 99. 
Garganey, Br. ZooL 2, 289. tab. 101. Ih, foL 158. 
tab. 9. Ar^, Zool, 2./>. 576. O, 
Lath. Syn, 6. />. 550. 87. Mont. 
Orn. Di^. Vol. 1. Bewick's Br. 
Btrds^ Ft. 2. p. 336. 
'■■■■ W i'lfd'l il' i 'll Ji ll I " ' 
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 ; 
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 flies higher^ and when on wing utters a 
humming noife. 
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