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Female.
Place,
94.
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D e SCRITTION.
Place.
95*
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The female is nearly coloured as the male, but the colours lefs
diftinft, and duller: the white on the breaft waved with brown.
Inhabits Egypt.
La Sarcelle male de Madagafcar, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 274.— PI. Eel. 770.
C I Z E of the Teal: length about twelve inches. Bill an inch
^ long, yellow 5 tip black: irides yellow : top of the head as
far as the crown, fore parts of the head, and neck, white, palling
on the fides behind the eyes, and ending there in a point; but
part of the head and neck dark dulky greenilh black: on the
middle of this, below the ears, an oval patch of paler green :
lower part of the neck and breaft pale ruft-eolour, undulated
with dulky lines, and palling behind in a collar : upper part of
the body, wings, and tail, very dark green : fides clouded with
ferruginous : middle of belly and vent white : quills dulky : on
the wings a ftreak of white: legs dulky.
Inhabits Madagafcar.
La Sarcelle de Coromandel, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 274.— PA Enl. 949, 950.
r p H I S fpecies is lefs by one fourth than the Garganey. Bill
dulky : top of "the head black; the reft of it and the neck
white, fpeckled with dulky black : the lower part of the neck
ftriated acrofs with fine lines of the fame : the upper parts of the
body and wings are brown, with a green and reddilh glofs ?
breaft and belly white: fides of the vent inclining to ferruginous
: lees black.
The
Thé female differs in having the white on the under parts Female.
mixed with grey j and the lines on the lower part of the neck
broader, and lefs diftinft: and in general the whole plumage
is lefs beautiful than the male.
Inhabits the coaft of Coromandel.
L a Sarcelle de l’ llle de L11501], Son. Voy. p. $ i . t. 54.
T ESS than the Teal. Bill black : the upper part and fides of
J-/ the head and throat white: neck, breaft, and wing coverts,
reddilh brown: back covered with yellow feathers, margined
with black ; thofe of the belly white, with black margins: quills
and tail Hate black : legs blackilh.
Inhabits the illand of Manilla.
Anas formofa, Georgt Rtife, i.p . 168»
C I Z E of a Teal: length fifteen inches: weight eighteen
^ ounces. The bill is black : crown of the head the fame,
bordered on each fide, with white: from the eye to the throat,
on each fide, is a curved ftreak of black, bounded on the back
part by a pale one, and afterwards by one of green : the nape of
the neck, and fides, undulated : throat pale rufous, dotted with
black: the back is brown: baftard wing ftriped with ferruginous,
white, and black , the, outer edge of it undulated : fpeculum
black, on the fore part obliquely marked with gloffy green, and
edged with teftaceous: vent black, fpotted on each fide with
ferruginous, and crofted with a white band : tail fomewhat
- pointed,
Place.
96..
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