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KEY TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



blackish (male) ; sides of head, speckled (dull white, dotted with black) ; chin and throat, 

 dusky, tinted with rufous (female). Western species rare east of the Mississippi River. 



Anas cyanoptera. Cinnamon Teal. 



See No. 98. 



No blue patch on wing ; head, rufous brown with large patch of green through eye 

 to nape ; speculum, black and greeu (male) ; head, speckled. No blue patch on wing (female). 



Anas carolinensis. Green=winged Teal. 

 See No. 96. 



* Group 2. Wing, from 8 to 10 inches long. 

 Section 1. Belly, white; no flap or lobe on hind toe. 



Head, green, purple, black, and white ; chin and upper throat, 

 white; feet, yellow in life (male). 



Aix sponsa. Wood Duck. Summer Duck. 



See No. 101. 



Head, grayish brown with white 

 stripe through the eye ; chin and up- 

 per throat, white ; toes, dull yellow in 

 life (female). 



Aix sponsa. Wood Duck. 



Summer Duck. 



See No. 101. 



Aix sponsa. 



Head, brown ; chin, not white; a white stripe on sides of the neck; tail, pointed (male). 



Dafila acuta. Pintail Duck. 



See No . 100. 



Section 2. Belly, not white; hind toe, without mem= 



braneous lobe or flap. 



Bill, more than one inch wide near tip; head, green 

 or greenish ; speculum, metallic green ; axilla s, white; 



feet, orange red in life (male). 



Spatula dypeata. Shoveller Duck. Broad-bill. 



See No. 99. 



Bill, more than one inch wide near tip; head, nar- 

 rowly streaked and speckled with brown and dull white ; 

 speculum, metallic green; feet, orange red in life; axil- 

 lars, white (female). 



Spatula dypeata. Shoveller Duck. Broad-bill. 



See No. 99. 

 Spatula dypeata. 



* For directions for measurement, see page 9. 



