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taken at Tuckerton.^ Another was taken on the Delaware March, 

 1887," and still others at Tuckerton.^ Mr. Chapman* also records one 

 killed at Leonia by C. Demarest in spring of 1880 or 1881, and Mr. 

 DeL. Berier states, on the authority of Mr. Chas. W. Moxon, that 

 several were killed on Barnegat Bay during the season of 1878-79. 



137 Mareca americana (Gmelin). 

 Baldpate, Widgeon. 



Adult male. — Length, 18-22. Wing, 10.25-11. Head .and neck white, tinged 

 with buff, and thickly speckled with black ; crown, pure white ; behind the eye 

 and back of the neck tinged with bronze-green ; breast and sides vinaceous, the 

 latter vermiculated with black ; back, vinaceous gray ; gray on rump finely 

 vermiculated with black : wing, largely white ; a black speculum with bronze- 

 green band ; tertials black on outer web ; under parts of body, white ; under 

 tail-coverts, black. 



Adult female. — Similar to female Gadwall, but speculum gray, preceded by a 

 black patch, and abdomen speckled with obscure grayish-brown spots. 



Irregular transient on the coast and about New York City. More 

 frequent on Delaware Bay. Most frequently seen during October and 

 November. One was taken at Washington's Crossing, on the upper 

 Delaware, April 14th, 1905, by Mr. J. G. Dillen, and Thurber gives 

 it as a rare migrant at Morristown. 



138 Nettlon crecca (Linnaeus). 

 European Teal. 



Similar in size and coloration to the American Green-winged Teal, but the 

 adult male lacks the diagonal white bar at the shoulder and has the vermicula- 

 tions of the upper parts coarser. 



Accidental straggler from Europe. Dr. C. C. Abbott in his Report 

 on the Birds of New Jersey (1868) records one taken at Trenton. 



' Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., V., p. 195. 

 ' Stone, Birds of E. Pa. and N. J., p. 55. 



=> Forest and Stream, 1882, p. 86, and Proc. Bost. Soc, N. IL. III., p. 21; 

 VL, p. 376. 



^ Auk, 1889, p. 302. 



