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U. S. p. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY GENERAL REPORT. 



Sp. Cn — Head and neck all round clicstnut ; cliin black ; forehead dusky. Region round the eye, continued along the side 

 of the head as a broad stripe, rich green, passing into a bluish black patch across the nape. Under parts while, the feathers of 

 the jugulum with rounded black spots. Lower portion of neck all round, sides of breast and body, long feathers of Hanks and 

 scapulars beautifully and finely banded closely with black and grayish white. Outer webs of some scapulars, and of outer secon- 

 daries black, the latter tipped with white ; speculum broad and rich green ; wing coverts plain grayish brown, the greater coverts 

 tipped with buff. A white crescent in front of the bend of the wing ; crissum black, with a triangular p.itch of buffy white on 

 each side. Lower poition of the green stripe on each side of the head blackish, with a dull edge of whitish below. 



Female with the wings as in the male. The under parts white, with hidden spots on the jugulum and lower neck ; above 

 dark brown, the feathers edged with gray. 



Length, 14 inches ; wing, 7.40 ; tarsus, 1.14 ; commissure, 1.68. 



Hab. — Whole of North America ; accidental in Europe. 



Males vary in having the under parts sometimes strongly tinged with ferruginous brown. 



List of specimens. 



Locality. 



Carlisle, Fa. 

 do 



.do.. 



Blackfoot country.... 



Big Bend, Mo 



Nelson river, H. B. T. 

 Great Salt Lalte City. 

 Indianola 



El Paso, Texas 



Rio Rito, Laguna, N. M. 

 do 



Ohiiiualiua 



Camp 118, B. W. Fork. 

 , do 



Boca Grande, Mexico. 



Bodega, Cat 



SUoalwater bay, W. T. 



When col- 

 lected. 



Mar. 20, 1847 

 April 10, 1841 

 Oct. 31, 1840 



1855 



Oct. 10, 1856 



1854 



Feb. 14, 1855 



Nov. 12, 1854 

 Nov. — , 1854 

 Oct. 16, 1854 

 Feb. 10, 1854 

 Feb. 8, 1834 

 Mar. — , 1858 

 Dec. — , 1854 



Fort Steilacooin Jan. 20,1854 



Whence obtained 



S. F. Baird., 



do.... 



do 



Lt. Warren 



do 



D. Gunn 



Capt. Beckwitli. 

 Capt. Pope 



Maj. Emory.,.. 

 Lt. Whipple.... 



do 



J. Potts 



Lt. Wliipple... 



do 



Maj. Emory.. .. 

 Lt. Trowbridge. 

 Gov. Stevens .. 



do 



Orig'l 



No. 



Collected by- 



Dr. llayden .. 



do , 



Jill). lt.l»i~ter. 



J. II. Clarlc.... 

 Kenn. and Mull. 

 do 



Kenn. and Mull. 



do 



Dr. Kennerly.. 

 T. A Szabo ... 

 Dr. Cooper 



Dr. Suckley. 



Length. 



13.50 



12.50 

 13.00 

 13.00 



Stretch 

 of wings. 



21.00 



20.00 

 21.00 

 22.00 



24.50 



Wing. 



Remarks. 



Feet bright yellow,bill bl'k, 

 iris red, gnms yellow. 



Iris brown, bill and feet 

 pate gray. 



NETTION CRECCA, Kaup. 



English Teal. 



Jnas crecca, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 17G6, 204.— Gmf.liv, 1, 1788, 532.— Temminck, Man. II, 846. 

 Qnerqvedulu crecca, Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII, i, 1824, 146. 

 " JVtdion crecca, Kaup, Entw. Europ. Thicrw. 1829." 

 gp. Cii. — Similar in size and general appearance to Mtiion carolinensis. No white crescent in front of the bend of the wing ; 

 tho elongated scapulars black externally ; internally creamy white. 

 IJab. — Europe. Accidental on tho eastern coast of tho United States. 



This species is exceedingly similar to the common greeo-wing teal, hut is readily distinguish- 

 able on comparison. The lower border of the green on the side of the head, and a curved line 

 running very near the anterior and superior outline of the side of the head, arc quite distinctly 

 whitish, instead of being merely obsoletely paler, as in the other. The transverse bands of tlio 

 upper parts and sides are more sharply defined and rather more distant. The band at the end 

 of the greater coverts is broader and whiter, that at tlie end of the lesser is narrower. The 



