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BIRDS. 
fClafs II. 
SPECIES XX. 
JViL orn. 377. 
Raiifyn.av. 148. 
Querquedula varia, Gefner av. 107. 
r HIS fpecies is of a fize between the 
1 wigeon and teak The bill is of a deep 
lead color ; the crown of the head is 
dufky, marked with oblong ftreaks ; on the chin 
is a large black fpot : from the corner of each 
eye is a long white line, that points to the back 
of the neck : the cheeks, and upper part of the 
neck, are of a pale purple, marked with minute 
oblong lines of white, pointing downwards ; the 
bread: is of a light brown, marked with femicir- 
cular bars of black : the belly is white; the lower 
part and vent varied with fpecks, and bars of a 
The Garganey. Plate © o. 
Querquedula. Brijfon av. VI. 427. 
Tab. 39. 
Querquedula. Lin, fyft. 126. 
dufky hue ; the coverts of the wings are grey; 
but the lowed are tipt with white ; the fird quil 
feathers are afh-colored; the exterior webs of 
thofe in the middle green ; the fcapulars are long 
and narrow, and elegantly driped with white, afh- 
color, and black ; the tail dufky : the legs lead 
color. The head of the female is fpotted with 
brown, dufky and afh-color : the fpace round the 
eyes dark : the bread marked with white, dufky, 
and orange : the coverts of the wings, and the 
fcapulars are of a brownifh afh-color. 
SPECIES 
ITil. orn. 377. 
Rail Jyn. av, 147. 
Querquedula. Gefner av. 106, 
H E teal weighs about twelve ounces .♦ 
the length is fiveteen inches; the breadth 
twenty-eight. The bill is black: the 
head, and upper part of the neck are of a deep 
bay: from the bill to the hind part of the head 
is a broad bar of glofTy changeable green, bounded 
on the lower fide by a narrow white line : the 
lower part of the neck, the beginning of the 
back, and the fides under the wings, are elegantly 
marked with waved lines of black and white : the 
bread and belly ar,e of a dirty white; the vent 
black : the tail fharp pointed, and dufky: the co¬ 
verts of the wings brown : the greater quil fea¬ 
thers dufky; the exterior webs of the lefler marked 
with a glody green fpot; above that another of 
black, and the tips white : the irides whitifh : the 
legs dusky. The female is of a brownifh afh- 
XXI. The Teal. 
Querquedula minor. Brijfon av.VI, 
43d. Tab, 40. Fig. x. 
Anascrecca. Lin. fyft. 126. 
color, fpotted with black ; and has a green fpot 
on the wing like the male. By the defcription 
Mr. Willoughby has left of the fummer teal p. 
378- we fufpeft that it differs not in fpecies from 
the common kind, only in fex. Linnxus hath 
placed it among the birds of his country; * but 
leaves a blank in the place of its refidence ; and 
hath evidently copied Mr. miloughbfs imperfect 
defcription of it: and to confirm our fufpicion that 
he has followed the error of our countryman, we 
cbfcrved that a bird fent us from the Baltic fea, 
under the title of anas circia, the fummer teal of 
Linnet, was no other than the female of our 
teal. Befides thefe fpecies of ducks, we have been 
informed that the Glaucion, and a brown duck 
with a white fpot in the wings, are fometimes feen 
in Lincolnfhire. 
9 Fauna Suecica, 2d. edit. 46. 
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