37^ BRITISH BIRDS. 
TEAL, 
OR COMMON TEAL. 
{^Anas crecca^ Lin . — La petite Sarcelle,) 
This beautiful little Duck feidom exceeds eleven 
ounces in weight, or meafures more, ftretched out, 
than fourteen inches and a half in length, and twen- 
ty-three and a half in breadth. The bill is a dark 
lead colour, tipped with black : irides pale hazel % 
a glolfy bottle-green patch, edged on the upper fide 
with pale brown, and beneath with cream-coloured 
white, covers each eye, and extends to the nape of 
the neck : the reft of the head, and the upper part 
of the neck, are of a deep reddifli chefnut, darkeft 
on the forehead, and freckled on the chin and about 
the eyes with cream-coloured fpots : the hinder part 
of the neck, the flioulders, part of the fcapulars, 
fides under the wings, and lower belly, towards 
