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BIRD NAMES. 



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white. Breast li^ht buff, with blackish spots ; at either side of 

 breast a white bar ; belly white, though often with buff tinge ; 

 feathers beneath tail black, with light buff patch at each side. 

 Legs bluish gray, tinged with flesh color. 



Female. Principally dark brown and light yellowish brown 

 or buff ; the lighter color noticeable upon edges of the feathers, 

 but more closely mixed in a streakily speckled manner about 

 neck and head ; crown of head and streak running back through 

 eye, dark; throat pale buff; on lower fore neck, breast, and 



along upper sides of body the buff tint predominating, and of a 

 rather deeper shade, and the dark markings more spotty. Under 

 surface of body white, with dusky markings back of legs. Wings 

 nearly as in male. 



Length about fourteen inches ; extent twenty-two to twenty- 

 four inches. Bill narrow, and nearly same width throughout. 



Range, 



North America at large. 



GREEN -WINGED TEAL, or GREEN -WING, simply, so called 

 very generally: AMERICAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL, distinguish- 

 ing it particularly from European Green-wing, Anas creeca, 

 which strays to us occasionally ; and termed likewise by certain 



