. A history of British birds . with two narrowtransverse bars of bufly-brown ; wing like the male, but thespeculum has more velvet-black, less green, and no purplecolour; chin pale brown ; lower part of neck on the frontand sides varied with two shades of brown, in crescenticmarks; breast white; sides, flanks, belly, and under tail-coverts, dull white, spotted with dark brown. Varieties of the Teal are occasionally met with ; one inthe collection of Mr. J. Whitaker, has the wings and backof a light slate-colour, and the breast several shades lighterthan usual. The nestling is yellowish-white o
. A history of British birds . with two narrowtransverse bars of bufly-brown ; wing like the male, but thespeculum has more velvet-black, less green, and no purplecolour; chin pale brown ; lower part of neck on the frontand sides varied with two shades of brown, in crescenticmarks; breast white; sides, flanks, belly, and under tail-coverts, dull white, spotted with dark brown. Varieties of the Teal are occasionally met with ; one inthe collection of Mr. J. Whitaker, has the wings and backof a light slate-colour, and the breast several shades lighterthan usual. The nestling is yellowish-white on the under parts ; bufifon the forehead and throat; a dark brown streak from theforehead to the crown, which, with the upper parts, is brown ;a dark loral streak, and two other streaks from behind theeye to the nape, on each side. The trachea of the male Teal is about five inches inlength, the tube rather narrower near the middle than atany other part; the bony enlargement of the size and formrepresented in the figure A male example of the American Teal is stated byMr. John Evans, without any description, to have been shotnear Scarborough in November 1851 (Zool. p. 3472) ; butMr. W. E, Clarke takes no notice of it in his Handbook ofYorkshire Vertebrates, In The Naturalist, viii. (1858),p. 168, Mr. W. G. Gibson, writing from Dumfries, says,without naming any month, a specimen of the Blue- 392 anatidj:. winged Teal {Anas discors) was shot near here a few weeksago. Mr. R. Gray makes no allusion to this record in his Birds of the West of Scotland, but he states (p. 373) thata specimen of this North American Teal was shot by the lateMr. Shaw of Drumlanrig, in January 1863, on the Nith, Dum-friesshire, and afterwards passed into the collection of thelate Sir William Jardine, who briefly mentioned the circum-stance to Mr. Gray, in a letter dated the 15th March, 1867,but does not appear to have published any account or descrip-tion of this acquisition.* In The Zoologist for 18
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