BIRDS — ANATINAE NETTION CAROLINENSIS. 



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List of specimens. 



NETTION, Kaup. 



A^Hion, Kaup, Enlwick. 1829. Type .Snaa crecca, L. (Gray.) 

 Qutrquedula, Bonap. List, 1838. Not of Stephens, 1824. 



Ch.— Bill unusually narrow, longer than the foot ; the sides parallel ; the upper lateral angle not e.\tending back as far as 

 the lower edge. Nail very narrow, linear, and about one-fiflh as wide as the bill. 



The European and American species oi' Nettion (jQuerquedula, of Bonaparte, Eyton, &c.) a<^ree 

 in having the head and neck chestnut, with a broad patch of green on the side of head ; the breast 

 has rounded black spots ; the upper part and sides are finely waved transversely with black 

 and grayish white ; the crissum is black, edged with creamy yellow ; the wing coverts are 

 plain olive gray, the greater with a terminal bar of fulvous ; the speculum is green, edged exter- 

 nally and internally with black. The diagnoses are as follows : 



A white crescent on the side, just anterior to the bend of the wing. Scapulars jjlain grayish 

 brown N, caroUnensis- 



No crescent on the sides ; longer scapulars, creamy white internally, velvet black externally . 

 Light lines on the side of head more distinct ....N. crecca. 



NETTION CAEOLINENSIS, Baird. 



Green-winged Tea. 



Anas carolintnsis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 533— Add. Syn. 1839, 281.— In Birds Amer. VI, 1843, 281 ; pi. 392. 



Reinhdt. Vid. Med. for 1853 (1854), 84 (Greenland.) 

 Querquedula carolinensis, Stepii. Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII, 1824, 148. 

 .Inas crecca, vai. Forster, Phil. Trans,- LXII, 1772, 383, 419. 

 Anas crecca, Wilsok, Am. Orn. VIII, 1814, 101 ; pi. l.\.\.— Eo.v. Obs. No. 263 —Ib. Syn. 386.— Aid. Orn. Biog. Ill, 



1853, 218 : V, 616 ; pi. 228. 

 ^naj (Boschas) crecca, Sw. P. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 400.— Nuttall, Man. II, 1834, 400. 

 " Anas sylvatica, Vieillot." 

 American Teal, Pennant, II, 569.— Lath. Syn. Ill, ii, 554. 



Angn.st 18, 1838. 



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