Ornith. Also 7 atteille, ateil, awteal(e, 9 a-teal. A species of duck of the Orkney and Shetland Isles, identified by some with the Widgeon.
1600. Act 16 Jas. VI., xxiii. Termigants, wyld-Dukes, Teilles, Atteilles, Goldings … or any sic kynde of fowlles.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, I. xxxvii. River-fowle, teales and awteales.
a. 1795. G. Low, Fauna Orcad. (1813), 145 (Jam.). I have seen another bird of the teal-kind here called Atteal.… It … is very small, brown or dusky above, and a yellowish belly.
1809. Edmonston, Zetland Isl., II. 255 (Jam.). Anas Ferina, A-teal, Pochard, Great-headed Wigeon.
