410 
ANATIDyE. 
NA TA TORES. 
AN ATI DM. 
TEAL. 
Anas crecca. 
PLATE CXIV. FIG. II. 
The Teal, which is one of the wild ducks which remain 
in this country to breed, although in smaller numbers than 
the mallard, is met with during the summer in places 
similar to those chosen by the commoner species, but 
usually more remote from the cultivated districts, resort¬ 
ing to those marshy moorland wastes which are yet un¬ 
touched by the hand of cultivation, and generally orna¬ 
mented by small ponds or pools of water 
In such wild spots its nest is usually placed amongst 
the heath or long grass. 
Prestwick Carr, a fine piece of wild moorland, inter¬ 
sected in all directions by drains and spongy swamps, a 
few miles from the town of Newcastle,—well known by 
the naturalists of the neighbourhood for its riches in each 
of the branches of natural history, and probably frequented 
by a greater number of species of birds, than any place 
of similar size in this country,—is one of the breeding- 
places of the Teal. 
In Mr. Hancock's collection are two nests of this spe¬ 
cies, taken there by himself on the 28th of April, and each 
containing eleven eggs, the full number ; they were placed 
amongst the long heather, of which, together with some 
