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27 27 Speculum white or whitish, or dusky speckled with white. 

 Length 19-22 inches. 



Chaulelasmus strepera (Linn.) Bonap. Grey Duck. 



27 26 Speculum glossy green or greenish, purple and blue. 



28 29 Male, head and neck dark, neck with a white ring. 



Anas Boschas Linn. Mallard. 



29 28 Head dusky, fore part of the neck white; middle rectrices 



longer than the other quills. 



Dafila acuta (Linn.) Bonap. Pintail. Springtail. 



Females. 



With the wings as in the male ; head, neck and under 



parts pale ochrey, speckled and streaked with dusky. 



About 24 inches. 



A?ias boschas. 



With only a trace of the speculum between the white or 

 whitish tips of the greater coverts and secondaries. 

 The whole head and neck speckled or finely streaked 

 with dark brown, and grayish or yellowish-brown ; be- 

 low, dusky freckled ; above, blackish ; all the feathers 



pale-edged. 



Dafila acuta. ^ 



30 25 Second quill longest. Of small size, 13-17 inches. 



31 32 Wing coverts pale blue; bill slightly enlarged. 



Querquedula discors (Linn.) Stephens. Blue-winged Teal. 



32 31 Wing coverts dusky. 



Nettion Carolinensis (Gm.) Baird. Green-winged Teal.^ 



33 18 Hind toe short, broadly lobed; lobe broader than \ of an 



inch. 



34 51 Bill elevated at base, flat and broad towards tip which 



has a strong horny nail. 



^ I put off the Anas obscura Gmel., the black duck, which is the common 

 wild duck of the Maritime Provinces, though a few stragglers reach some- 

 times Manitoba {vide Macoun, /. c. p. 76.) 



^ I do not include the Oiierquediila cyanoptera, the Cinnamon teal, a 

 southern species, which is only a very rare straggler in Manitoba {vide 

 Macoun, /. c. p. 83). 



