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KEY TO THK BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



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

 dusky, tinted with rufous (female). Westei-u 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 

 touape; speculum, black and greeu (male); liead, speckled. Xo l)lue patch on wiiii^ (female). 



Atias caroUnensis. Qreen=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 thro.at, 

 white; feet, yellow in life (male). 



Aix sponsa. Wood Duck. Summer Duck. 

 See No. 101 . 

 Head, grayish brown with white 

 stripe thiou>:;]i the eje ; chin and up- 

 per throat, white; toes, dull yellow in 

 life (female). 



Aix sponn((. Wood Duck. 



Summer Duck. 



See No. 101, 



Aix Hponsa. 



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



Dafila aaitd. 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, orauge red in life (male). 



Spatula clypeata. Shoveller Duck. Broad°biII. 



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, orant/e red in life; axil- 

 lars, white (female; . 



Spatula clypeata. Shoveller Duck. Broad=°bill. 



See No. 99. 

 Spatula clypeata. 



For directions for measurement, seepage S). 



