Wings of the archetypal duck (4)
I believe the answer is:
teal
'duck' is the definition.
(teal is a type of duck)
'wings of the archetypal' is the wordplay.
'wings of' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (letters on the two wings removed).
'archetypal' becomes 'al' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'the' with its centre taken out is 'te'.
'te'+'al'='TEAL'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for teal that I've seen before include "Small freshwater duck and colour" , "Strange tale of a duck" , "Raise (subject matter)" , "Small, short-necked duck" , "Variety of duck" .)