Teal may be seen in nearly all the winter months amongst the Coot at the Sacred Lake at Karnak, and at many other places guarded by the Antiquities Department.
As far as my own experience goes, I have never seen any really large flock of duck, of whatever kind, but there have been Teal among them.
Mr. Nicoll writes: "Several hundred Teal winter on the lake in the Gardens (Zoological).
Hardly had the door closed behind them, when Rosher and Teal charged along the passage and seized hold of Valentine and Hollis.
It was no good Hamond's clamouring for a pole jump, or Teal suggesting putting the weight.
Teal released his hold of Valentine, and springing to the gas-jet turned out the light.
He and Teal and Rosher are going to give your cousin a licking.
This Teal has an exceedingly wide distribution in America, being found from California in the northern continent down to the Straits of Magellan and the Falkland Islands in the south.
This prettily variegated blue-grey Teal with its strongly marked bill is perhaps the most abundant of the genus in the Argentine Republic, especially in the southern portion.
It is a rather curious coincidence that the vernacular name of this Teal in La Plata should be Pato Portugues, which means, as things are understood in that region, Brazilian Duck.
In the neighbourhood of Buenos Ayres the Ring-necked Teal is strictly migratory, and in the month of October appears in small flocks in the marshes along the river; but in the interior of the country it is seldom met with.
Yet the cinnamon teal is very common in Mexico and Arizona and quite plentiful in southern California in the spring, before the flocks break up and the birds seek their nesting places.
The male of the blue-winged teal partakes more of the grayish color of the green-winged variety and has a white crescent in front of the eye.
Nest and Eggs=--The nests are much the same as the other members of the teal family.
While the cinnamon teal has a blue wing there is no resemblance between the male cinnamon and the male blue-winged.
The blue-winged teal is a plumper bird than either of the other species, and not near so handsomely marked.
How people come 'teal a gun wif Pomp and Mass' George eatin' um breakfast here?
Gator 'fraid we come shoot um, and come out of de ribber and 'teal a gun.
Geese, duck and teal are to be seen flighting every day.
In regard to what you say about the ducks, I'm told that teal are common in Turkey and snipe in Arabia, but not so common as mallard in England or pintail in India.
These people put the size of the flock of teal at a hundred and fifty and the mallards at five hundred, but you should, I think, multiply the first by a hundred and the second only by ten.
I expect the mallards will migrate northwards, and the teal soon afterwards will become very scarce, but I hope the bitterns will stay where they are.
For example, it has been estimated that for species like common teal (Anas crecca) and wigeon (A.
Professor Ansted includes the Teal in his list, and marks it as occurring in Guernsey and Sark.
A few make their appearance in the Guernsey market in October and November, and occasionally through the winter; but Teal do not, as a rule, add much to the Guernsey sportsman's bag.
In November, 1871, a friend of mine told me that, after a long day's shooting from daylight till dark, he succeeded in bagging one Teal and one Woodcock.
Like the Wild Duck, the Teal is a regular but never numerous visitant to all the Islands.
Noiseless as ghosts, paddler and shooter glide along the even path till, alarmed by some keener sense than is given us, up rise wood duck, dusky duck, and teal from their reedy cover.
Gaudy wood duck and swift-winged teal have long since departed and left stream and shore to these marauders and to the trapper, who now gathers here his latest harvest.
We kept to our plan of going to Besse Saeter, starting as soon as John had finished his lunch, and got several teal and a greenshank on the way.
There were a good many tealand pochards on the lower lake, and plenty of sandpipers on the shores of the upper one.
On one little bit of water we spied three teal near the bank, and having both together made a most skilful stalk, got them all.
Baal teal flour," cried Shanter again; and drawing himself up he was turning away, but Norman caught his arm.
They had shot, however, only one teal and a spoonbill.
Black ducks and teal were most common, and Charley shot eight of them.
The teal are the fattest and most delicious birds that I have ever tasted.
Snipes, of course, abound in their season around the margin of the lakes; but the most delicious birds for the table are the teal and ducks, of which there are four varieties.
The flesh of the Teal is a great delicacy in the winter season, and has less of the fishy flavour than any of the wild duck kind.
Teal who is spoken of from Oregon as a possible Secretary of the Interior, is a good lawyer and a most public- spirited man who has been identified with every sane movement for progress in that state.
There is a good deal of guinea hen and tealfeathers used in the flies of these northern rivers, which appears to be an improvement, with jungle-cock and wood-duck.
A black fly, with silver and black hackle, and teal wings mixed with blue peacock neck.
Use small black bodied flies with silver and middling gaudy wings, mixed with teal or cock of the north feather--change it to a gaudy one if they do not take the black.
He had his revenge before long, for on rounding the point they ran into a mob of tealwhich were camping on a shady mud-beach.
The teal rose in a very alert fashion, flying back over the boat.
Johnny Doyle carried a dozen teal ducks, six in each hand.
No, sir, but daddy saw a big raft of teal swingin' into the bend of the river yesterday and we got up before daylight and got a mess.
In the deep a winged teal is making away, almost swash.
Then--so soon as the luckless teal is compelled to tarry five seconds above water--instantly those terrible talons close like a rat-trap.
Just as I prepared to move 300 yards eastward, a marvellous movement ofteal commenced.
Passing low islands where teal and pin-tail rose in clouds at his approach, driving Fleur into a frenzy of excitement, at last he turned in behind a long island paralleling the coast.
The European Teal has been recorded by the Japanese at Pagan in the northern Marianas.
He could hear the sweet flute-notes of tealand pintails, and the raucous, cautious quack of some old green-head.
A teal would pitch suddenly down to the water before him and rest there, erect and wary, painted in black upon the golden water.
Sometimes he would follow the river northward, stalking the flocks of teal and mallards that dozed on the sandbars in the wide, muddy stream, perhaps killing three or four fat birds.
I also killed several couple of ducks and teal in addition to twenty-eight couple of snipe.
Crossing a large meadow, and skirting the banks of the lake, from which the ducks and teal rose in large flocks, we entered a long neck of jungle which stretched far into the lake.
Wild duck and teal predominated, and the guides could hardly stagger from the canoe to the houses with our united bag.
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