FAMILY ANATIDAZ. — DUCKS, GEESE, AND SWANS. 65 
Bill, less than one inch wide near tip; head, lined and speckled with brown and 
brownish white; speculum, not metallic yreen; axillars, white, barred with brown; rump 
and tail coverts, brown, narrowly edged and banded with 
white; feet, dusky (female). 
: Dafila acuta. Pintail Duck. 
Axillar. Dafila acuta. See No. 100. 
Belly, white, with more or less brown spots; axillars, white; bill, less than .90 
wide at widest part (female). Anas strepera. Gadwall. 
See No. 92. 
selly, more or jess spotted; throat, white; rump, olive brown; secondaries, metallic 
green, tipped with white; axillars and under wing coverts, heavily barred; toes, yellowish in 
life (female). Aix sponsa. Wood Duck. Summer Duck, 
See No. 101. 
*QGroup 3. Wing, from 10 to 14 inches long. 
Section 1. Hind toe, without membraneous lobe or flap; 
belly, white, sometimes faintly tinged with dusky or 
gray on lower part. 
Axillars, white; the shafts, white: exposed speculum, black 
and white; head, tawny brown; cheeks and throat, tawny, 
speckled with brown (mule). 
Anas strepera. Gadwall. Creek Duck. 
See No. 92. 
Axillars, white; the shafts, white; head, speckled; 
exposed speculum, black and white (female). 
Anas strepera. Gadwall. Creek Duck. 
See No. 92. 
Axillars, white with dark shafts; speculum, green and black; white patch on 
shoulder: top of head, white (male Anas americana. American Widgeon. Baldpate. 
See No. 94. 
* For directions for measurement, see page 9. 
