GREEN-HEADED TEAL. 
greyish-brown. On the 1st November, 1886, I found a Teal’s nest with 
eleven fresh eggs, on a swampy plain beyond Montague ; the nest was 
in a clump of earth growing dwarf tea-tree, and surrounded by shallow 
water ; little but bare ground formed the bottom of the nest, but was 
thickly lined with black down with white centres. We flushed the bird 
from it as we rode across the plain.” 
Dr. W. Macgillivray says this is the coastal and rogersi the inland bird. 
The adult male flgured was collected in Tasmania in December, 1862, 
and the female described above, on the Tamar River in the same Island 
on the 21st of July, 1912, by Mr. H. G. Thompson, of Launceston, who 
very kindly gave me the specimen. 
This female is a most interesting bird, as showing (in conjunction with 
Carter’s female, see ante) that it is very like the male. Mr. Carter also 
mentions that in the flocks he saw most of the birds were green headed. 
Dr. Lonsdale {ante) saw about a dozen drakes and only two or three ducks 
(immature ?). It is quite possible that collectors have called all green-headed 
birds males without dissecting them, being carried away by the behef that 
only the male had a green head. 
