254 ZOOLOGY. 



passes into tlie gray of the liack. Tlie bact anteriorly and tbe siiles are finely lined transversely with black and white. The 

 wings are plain and bluish gray ; the greater coverts with a terminal bar of purplish buff, below which is a greenish purple 

 speculum, margined behind by black, and tipped with white Longest tertials striped with silvery and greenish black. 

 Scapulars black, edged with silvery ; cri.ssum aiid elongated tail feathers black ; the former edged with white. 



Female with only a trace of the markings of the wing ; the green of the speculum brownish, with a few green spots. The 

 feathers of the back are brown, with a broad U or V-shaped brownish yellow bar on each feather anteriorly. Sometimes 

 those bars appear in the shape of broad transverse lines. 



Length, 30 to 32 inches ; e.xtent, 27 ; wing, II ; tail, 8. CO ; tarsus, 1. 75 ; commissure, 2. 36. 



Jlah. — Whole of North America and Europe. 



The pintail duck is very abundant on tlic Columbia river, and also on the fresh water lakes 

 near Puget Sound. — S. 



While feeding this duck keeps up a constant gabble. It also, on certain ponds, dives much 

 for its food, bringing up weeds, roots, &c., from the bottom, and, in this respect, somewhat 

 resembling the canvas-back. It is not nearly so shy as the mallard, but more so than the 

 widgeon or teal. It retires to the north early in the spring; this movement is so genera, that 

 during the breeding season scarcely a pair is to be seen near Puget Sound. 



The pintail duck is found in immense numbers during the coldest winter weather, both in 

 fresh and salt waters, though it seems to prefer the fresh when not frozen over. — C. 



NETTION CAROLINENSIS, ( G m . ) B a i r d . 



Grecii-^vliigt'cl TfjU. 



Anas caroUmnsis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 178S, 533. — AuD. Syn. 1839, 281.— Ib. Birds Amer. VI, 1843, 281 ; pi. 392.— 



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

 Anas cncca, Wil-son, Am. Oru. VIII, 1814, 101 ; pi. Ixx.— Bo.v. 01«. No. 2G3.— Ib. Syu. 38G.— AuB. Orn. Biog. Ill, 



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

 Jlnas {Boschas) crecca, Sw. F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 400.— Nlttall, Man. II, 1834, 400. 

 NtUion carolinmsis, Baibd, Gen. Rep. Birds, 777. 

 Sp. Ch. — Head and neck all round chestnut ; chin 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 white, the feathers of 

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

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

 secondaries, 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 patch 

 of huffy white on each side. Lower portion 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 ; iris brown ; feet pale gray. 



Length, 14 to 15 inches ; extent, 24. 50 ; wing, 7. 40 ; tarsus, 1. 14 ; commissure, 1. 68. 

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



Extremely abundant in the same situations that the mallard, pintail, and widgeon, are found 

 in. In winter on the northwest coast, as elsewhere, the males and females are found in separate 

 flocks. — S. 



The green-winged teal arrives from the south in March, and frequents fresh ponds chiefly, 

 breeding in the Territory. Some, perhaps, remain during mild winters. — C. 



QUERQUEDULA CYANOPTERA, (Yieill.) Cassin. 



Soutli American, Clniiaiuon, or Red-brcastecl Teal, 



Anas cyanoptera, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. V, 1816, 104. 



Querquedula cyanoptera, Cassin, Illust. I, III, 1855, 84 ; pi. xv. — Baird, Gen. Eep. Birtk, 780. 



Anas rafflesii. Kino, Zool. Jour. IV, 1828, 87. 



Plerocyanea rafflesii, Baiud, ZooI. Stansbury's Exp. Salt Lake, 1852, 322. 



