TEAL.
CRACH-HWYAD. COK HWTAD, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH.
COMMON TEAL.
Arias crecca,
Qturquedula crecca,
" secunda,
PENNANT. MONTAGU.
SELBY. GOULD.
ALDROVANDUS.
BKISSOK.
Anas—A Duck. Crea
THE Teal is widely dispersed over the European continent, being
plentiful in Germany, Denmark, Holland, France, Spain, Turkey, and
Italy, Iceland, Kamtschatka, Norway, Sweden, and Russia. In Asia
it occurs in Asia Minor, China, India, Japan, Arabia, and Persia;
and in Africa in Egypt and the northern districts; also, so writes
Selby, in North America.
They are plentiful in most parts of the country, at least in the
winter half of the year, when the numbers of the resident birds are
added to by large arrivals from the north. Either very dry, or very
hard weather, causes them at each season to leave their accustomed
haunts.
In Cornwall the Teal is not uncommon near Falmouth, as at Penryn
Creek, G wvllvnvase, Swanpool, and other places. In Devonshire
generally seen in winter in small nocks; very few in summer. In
Yorkshire Mr. Albs reports them as common near Doucaster, Sheffield,
York, and heeds, Barnsley and Iluddcrsfield on the moors, rare
about Hebden Bridge. A young Teal was shot by Mr. Girdles tone,
at Hickling, in Norfolk, in the month of July; some birds of this
species generally remain to breed in that county—at Kecdham, Ranworth
Broad, and Scoulton Merc. Also in Lincolnshire, near Tetney.