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Anas cucullata (Le canard a capuchon) Fischer in Bulletin d Natural. d. Moscou 
T. III. p- 279. et Nouv. Me'moires de la Socie'te Imper. d. nat. d. Moscou 
T. III. p. 111 Tab. IX. 
? Anas glocitans (Bimaculated Duck) Pennant brit. zool. II. 602. n. 287. t. 100. 
Laiham. Index Grnilhol. II. 862. n. 75.*, Allgemeine Uebersicht d. Vogel, 
iibers. v. Bechstein Bd. VI. S. 449. n. 66. — Laiham General history of 
birds Vol. X. (Winchester 1824.) p. 330. n. 93. — Gmelin syst. nat. 
T. I. P. II. p 526. n. 96. — Diclionnaire d. Sciences naturelles, Canard 
p. 375. e. p. 
? Querquedula glocitans Vigors Transact. ol. th. Linn. Society. T. XIV. III. 
p. 559.; Isis 1829. p. 1107. 
? Bimaculated Teal (Querquedula glocitans Vigors) Selby Illustrat, of brit. Orni- 
thology. Vol. II. p. 321. tab. LV et LI, (Descriptio et figurae maris et 
feminae). 
Descriptio. 
Rostrum nigricans, modice elongatum , quovis latere angulo parvo, acuto ad 
frontem extensum, lamellis mediocriter evolutis armatum. Frons, vertex et area 
triangularis in occipitis media parte obvia, postice acula, porro macula oblongo- 
Iriangularis vel subfalcata ab oculo ad gulam tendens, nec non gula ipsa nigra, 
fronte et vertice nonnihil rubro, occipitis area et macula triangulari autem violaceo 
paulisper micantibus. Macula fere subrhomboidalis postice latior, supra gulam, ante 
oculum ad frontem usque adscendens, nec non colli media pars et latera alba vel 
e pallide subfuscescente albida , marginibus tamen semper albidiora. Taenia 
angustissima supra oculum quemvis ad occiput usque discurrens et in occipite 
angulo acuto cum alterius lateris taenia confluens, sicuti nuchae posterioris partis 
latera, candida. Taeniola angusta, falcata, pone oculum incipiens et ab initio 
usque ad medium in colli latere retrorsum, dein vero antrorsum curvata et in 
colli albedine fere usque ad anteriorem ejus faciem descendens, sicuti medium 
nuchae ex atro- violaceo sericeo -nitida. Taenia falcata, satis lata, supra hancce 
taeniolam juxta nucham in quovis latere descendens viridi-aurata, nitidissima, in 
