168 TEAL 
QUERQUEDULA CIRCIA (Linn.). 
GARGANEY. 
Mr. Kermode records one in the collection at Orrisdale, 
It is still there, though much decayed, a male, with the 
characteristic white streak on the head and bluish-grey 
wing coverts. No particulars of its capture have been 
preserved. 
The species is of very casual occurrence in Ireland. A 
specimen was obtained in Wigtownshire in 1867. <A few 
have been killed in north-western England. It has not 
been recorded from the Outer Hebrides, and the few 
instances reported from Orkney and Shetland were at 
best quite exceptional. It nests in the eastern English 
counties, and elsewhere in Britain is occasional. 
QUERQUEDULA CRECCA (Linn.). TEAL. 
Manx, Laagh, *Laaghag (M. 8. D.). (Cf. Se. Gaelic, Lach, 
Lacha= Duck ; Irish, Lacha=Duck.) (The ‘ag’ is probably 
diminutive. ) 
The Teal is by no means infrequent on the pools and 
stream-sides of Man; in some winters specimens reach 
the Douglas poulterers in considerable numbers, and it is 
everywhere well known as one of our commoner species. 
In 1902, however, only seventeen Teal, all Manx, were 
recorded by Manx game dealers. In 1903 twenty-five, all 
native also, were registered. 
A few breed in the Curragh, and probably elsewhere 
in similar localities. The only nest I have seen was on 
a grassy strip between a road crossing the Curragh and 
