A NA TID.E — A NA TIX.E : HI] 'ER D UCKS. 



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line ; but also in Colorado, California, Wyoming, etc. ; winter range extends to Cuba and Cen- 

 tral America. It is one of the earliest arrivals among hordes of water- fowl that come thronging- 

 from the North in fall. Nest on the ground, of weeds, grass, and down ; eggs 8-12, some- 

 times more, ].7.5-].90 X 1.20-1.30, pale dull buff with a faint greenish tinge. 

 QUERQUED'ULA. (Lat. querquedula, a kind of small duck.) Bh-e-wixged Tkals. 

 Gargaxeys. Size small ; wing 8.00 or less. Head ch»se-feathered. Bill broader than in 

 Nettium, parallel-sided, blackish ; nail about ^ its tip. Re-entrance of feathers on sides of 

 culmeu uot in advance of base of bill below. Speculum glossy-green ; wing-coverts of ,^ 9 

 sky-blue; greater coverts white-tipped; scapulars of ^ striped with blue and buff. A small 

 genus of small Ducks, with 5 species, including Q. circia, the European Garganey. We have 

 two species. (As subgenus of Anas in A. 0. U. Lists, 1886-95; as full genus in Suppl. List, 

 Auk, Jan. 1899, p. 104, thus returning to the regular nomenclature of the Key.) 



Analysis of Species. 



(f Head and neck blackish-plumbeous ; large white crescent before eye discors 



(f General color purplish-chestnut ; no white on head • ci/anoplera 



Q. dis'cors. (Lat. f/Zscors, discordant.) Blue-winged Teal. Blue-wing. White-facei> 

 Teal. Summer Tkal. Adult ^ : Bill grayish-black ; feet dingy yellow, with dusky webs 

 and claws; iris brown. Head deep leaden-gray, with purplish gloss, blackening on top; a 

 large, white, black- 

 edged crescent in 

 fnmt of eye. Under 

 parts purplish-gray, 

 with innumerable 

 black spots, rounded 

 or oval on breast, 

 changing to bars on 

 Hanks, becoming 



nebulous on belly. 

 Crissum black ; a 

 patch on each side of 

 rump, axillars and 

 most of lining of i 

 wings, white. Lower 

 hind neck and fore 

 back varied with 



lirnwnish-black and 



11 ■ u 1 . Flo. ('>4J. — American Green-winced Teal. 



yd lo Wish - brown ; ^ 



lower l)ack and rump dark brown with a greenish tinge. Wing-coverts ami outer wrbs of 

 some of the scapulars sky-blue; speculum ricli green, set between white tips of greater coverts 

 and secondaries, some of the inner secondaries and Ituigcst scapulars velvety greenish-black on 

 outer web, greenish-brown on iumr web, striped lengthwise witli reddish-buff. 9 retaining 

 sky-bhu! on wing-coverts and miicli of the other wing-markings, hence easily distinguished 

 amoiiir our Ducks (excepting 9 ci/anoptera). liill greenisli-dusky ; feet very pale or flesh- 

 tinted. Head and neck streaked witli brownish-bhick on a dull buff ground; cheeks and chin 

 whitisii, unmarked. Above, dark brown, with pah- edges of tlie feathers; below whiti.sh-irray. 

 mottled with obscure spot.s. Lentrth l.'j.OO- 1 (!.()(); extent 'Jfi.OO-^O.OO; win-.' 7. (M>-7. .'»(»; tail 

 ',].'){): bill !.;■)(); tarsus 1.20. Nortli America, chiefly E. of the Uocky Mts. ; .scarce on the 

 Pacific coast; winters S. and to West Indies and northern .South Ainericji; in siiinuior X. to 

 hi-,']! iatitnde.s, but also breeds indefiuitelv in its U. S. ramre ; like Tintail and Slmveller nests 



iKrcim Lewis 



