ANAS CRECCA. 
TEAL. 
Generic CnARACTERt 6"^^ Anas Cygnus (ferus.) 
Synonyms. 
Anas Crecca, Lin.^ Syji, i. p. 204, 33. Ind. Orn^ 
2. p. 872. 100. 
Common Teal. jgr. Zoo/. 2. 290. Ik fol tah. addenda. 
Ar5l. ZooL 2. ^. 577. P. Lath, Syn. 
6. p. 5515 88. Ih, Supt, p, 276. 
Teal. Mont. Orn. Diet. Vol 2. Bewick's Br. Birds^ 
Ft. 2. p. 338. 
Anas Circia. Lin, Syjl. 1. p. 204. 34. 
Summer Teal. Lath. Syn. 6. p. 552. 89. 
Jl HE weight of this diminutive fpecies is about twelve 
ounces, its length is fourteen inches, and breadth nearly 
twenty-three. Bill flender ; irides yellowifti hazel ; tail cu- 
niform, compofed of fixteen feathers ; legs flender. 
We purpofe giving a figure of the female in a future 
number. 
It arrives in this country in the month of Oa:ober, in fmall 
flocks ; flies fwift, and dives admirably ; it aflbciates with 
other fpecies of duck, and conflderable numbers are daily fent 
to the London markets during the winter months from the 
decoys, 
Unlefs. 
