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WIDGEONS. 



1. BALDPATE, M. Americana. 20.00; bill, 1.50; 

 speculum, black; head and neck, creamy-white finely banded 

 and spotted, excepting on crown, with dusky; lower neck, 

 breast and sides reddish-ash more or less banded with dusky ; 

 dark brown above finely banded with white, fig. 145. Female, 

 duller, with crown spotted with dusky. Breeds in the inter- 

 ior of N. A. but chiefly north of the U. S. ; eggs, similar to b, 

 1 ; winters from the southern border of the U. S. to Central 

 America; migrates south in Nov., north in April. Common, 

 occurring in small flocks or in company with other ducks ; 

 rare on the Atlantic coast north of Fla. 



2. WIDGEON, M. penelope. Differs from 1 in having 

 the top of head yellowish and the remainder of head and neck, 

 chestnut-red sparingly spotted with dusky ; female, speculum 

 gray bordered with white excepting below. Northern parts 

 of the Old World ; occurs frequently in eastern U. S. 



d. Little Teals. Nettion. 

 Contains the smallest of our ducks. All have short, nar- 

 row bills and are prominently marked with striking colors. 

 1. GREEN-WINGED TEAL, N. caeolinensis. 14.00; 

 bill, 1.60; speculum, green above black below narrowly bor- 

 dered by white behind; head and neck, chestnut-red with a 

 green line behind eye ; brown above finely banded with white ; 

 Fig. 146. Fig. 147. 



TV, B, d, 1. 1-8. IV, B, e, 1. 1- 



crescent-shaped mark in front of wing, ring around neck and 

 beneath, white ; breast, purplish with rounded spots of black ; 

 under tail coverts creamy with a central line of black; bill 



