BIRDS — ANATINAE NETTION CAROLINENSIS. 



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List of specimens. 



NETTION, Kaup. 



J^ettion, Kaup, Entwick. J829. Type .litaa crecca, L. (Gray.) 

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



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

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



The European and American species oi Nettion {Querquedula, of Bonaparte, Eyton, &c.) agree 

 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 sj^eculum 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 plain grayish 

 brown , N. carolinensis' 



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

 Light lines on the side of bead more distinct .,..N. crecca. 



NETTION CAROLINENSIS, Baird. 



Green-winged Tea. 



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



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

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

 Anas crecca, var. Forster, Phil. Trans, LXII, 1772, 383, 419. 

 Anas crecca, Wilson, Am. Orn. VllI, 1814, 101 ; pi. Ixx.— Bon. Obs. No. 2C3 —Id. Syn. 386.— Atm. Orn. Biog. Ill, 



1853, 218 : V, G16 ; pi. 228. 

 Anas (Bosclias) crecca, Sw. F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 400.— Ndttall, Man. II, 1S34, 400. 

 " Anas sylvtttica, Vikillot." 

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



Angust 18, 18.58. 



98 b 



