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GARGANEYI (North-Italian, Garganello)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 466 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GARGANEYI (See also:North-See also:Italian, Garganello)  , or SUMMER-See also:TEAL, the Anas querquedula and A. circia of See also:Linnaeus (who made, as did See also:Willughby and See also:Ray, two See also:species out of one), and the type of See also:Stephens's genus Querquedula . This See also:bird is one of the smallest of the Anatidae, and has gained its See also:common See also:English name from being almost exclusively a summer-visitant to See also:England where nowadays it only regularly resorts to breed in some of the See also:East-See also:Norfolk Broads, though possibly at one See also:time it was found at the same See also:season throughout the See also:great Fen-See also:district . Slightly larger than the common teal (A. crecca), the male is readily distinguished therefrom by its peculiarly-coloured See also:head, the sides of which are See also:nutmeg-See also:brown, closely freckled with See also:short whitish streaks, while a conspicuous See also:white curved See also:line descends backwards from the eyes . The upper wing-coverts are bluish See also:grey, the scapulars See also:black with a white See also:shaft-stripe, and the wing-spot (See also:speculum) greyish See also:green bordered above and below by white . The See also:female closely resembles the See also:hen teal, but possesses no wing-spot . In See also:Ireland or See also:Scotland the garganey is very rare, and though it is recorded from See also:Iceland, more satisfactory See also:evidence of its occurrence there is needed . It has not a high See also:northern range, and its See also:appearance in See also:Norway and See also:Sweden is casual . Though it breeds in many parts of See also:Europe, in none can it be said to be common; but it ranges far to the eastward in See also:Asia—even to See also:Formosa, according to Swinhoe—and yearly visits See also:India in See also:winter in enormous See also:numbers . Those that breed in Norfolk arrive somewhat See also:late in See also:spring and make their nests in the vast 'See also:reed-beds which border the Broads—a situation rarely or never chosen by the teal . The See also:labyrinth or bony enlargement of the trachea in the male garganey differs in See also:form from that described in any other See also:drake, being more See also:oval and placed nearly in the 1 The word was introduced by Willughby from See also:Gesner (Orn., See also:lib. iii. p . 127), but, though generally adopted by authors, seems never to have become other than a See also:book-name in English, the bird being in-variably known in the parts of this See also:island where it is indigenous as summer-teal." median line of the See also:windpipe, instead of on one See also:side, as is usually the See also:case .

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