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tips, making a fpot on the wing : fome o f the wing coverts have
alfo white tips, forming a large fpot o f white forwards: the legs
are black.
A pair o f thefe were Ihot at one time, on a river in OJlrogothia*
in Sweden.
Common Teal, Gen. Syn^ vi. p. £5,1. N° 88.
Anas Crecca, SeppFog*pi. in p. 147. M.. and Fem.
B O T H the Garganey and this bird are found on the coafts o f
Kent in the winter * . The Teal is now known to breed in the
mofles about Carlijle, in Cumberland f . Both the Garganey and
Teal extend to India, as I have met with them in drawings done
in that country. I likewife find, that the Wild Duck, the Sboveler,.
and the Gadwal, inhabit the coaft o f Coromandel, and, no doubt*
other parts o f India.
PINK HEADED o f the Blatk-bilied Whifiling Duck: length: twenty-one
Pl . CXIX. inches.. Bill two inches and a half in length, a trifle bent at
Dssciuptiok. the Point J colour o f the whole of the head,, and half the-
neck, a fine pink 5 and, as far as that colour extends* the feathers-
are fhort and’ downy: irides red: the lower part of the neck, and.
the reft o f the plumage, a dulky deep chocolate brown, except a
kind of fpeeulum, formed of three or four of the quills, which are
o f a pale red, or ruft-colour: fome o f the lower wing coverts are
curveddownwards at the ends, as in the male of the JVeJlirn Duck% :
the tail is two inches in length, and the wings reach near one third
\ Gen. Syn, vi. p. 532.
thereon:
276
88. 4- COMMON
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Mr. Boy 1. •f Dr. Heyjhatn.
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