64 KEY TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 
blackish (male); sides of head, speckled (dull white, dotted with black) ; chin and throat, 
dusky, tinted with rufous (female). Western species rare east of the Mississippi River. 
Anas cyanoptera. Cinnamon Teal. 
See No. 98. 
No blue patch on wing; head, rufous brown with large patch of green through eye 
to nape; speculum, black and green (male); head, speckled. No blue patch on wing (female). 
Anas carolinensis. Green-=winged Teal. 
See No. 96. 
* Group 2. Wing, from 8 to 10 inches long. 
Section 1. Belly, white; no flap or lobe on hind toe. 
Head, green, purple, black, and white; chin and upper throat, 
white; feet, yellow in life (male). 
Aix sponsa. Wood Duck. Summer Duck. 
See No. 101. 
Head, grayish brown with white 
stripe through the eye; chin and up- 
per threat, white; toes, dull yellow in 
life (female). 
Aix sponsa. Wood Duck. 
Summer Duck. 
See No. 101. 
Aix sponsa. 
Head, brown; chin, not white; a white stripe on sides of the neck; tail, pointed (male). 
Dajila acuta. Pintail Duck. 
See No. 100. 
Section 2. Belly, not white; hind toe, without mem-= 
braneous lobe or flap. 
Bill, more than one inch wide near tip; head, green 
or greenish ; speculum, metallic green; axilla-s, white; 
feet, orange red in life (male). 
Spatula elypeata. Shoveller Duck. Broad-bill. 
See No. 99. 
Bill, more than one inch wide near tip; head, nar= 
rowly streaked and speckled with brown and dull white; 
{ speculum, metallic green; feet, orange red in life; axil- 
sige lars, White (female). 
Spatula clypeata. Shoveller Duck. Broad-bill. 
See No. $9. 
Spatula ¢lypeata. 
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“ror directions for measurement, see page 4. 
