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ANATIDH, DUCKS.—GEN. 256-7. 287 
Europe; casually on the Atlantic coast, Greenland to Florida; California 
(Cooper). Grraup, Birds Long Island, 807; Bp., 784. . . PENELOPE. 
American Widgeon. aldpate. Head and neck grayish, dusky-speckled ; 
top of head white (in full plumage), its sides with a broad green patch. 
N. Am., abundant. Scarcely distinct from the last. Sw. and 
Ricw., F. B.-A. ii, 445; Wits., viii, 86, pl. 69, f. 4; Nurr., 
il, 989; AtD., vi, 259, pl. 389; Bp., 783 . . AMERICANA. 
256-7. Genus QUERQUEDULA Stephens. 
* Subcrested ; head and upper neck chestnut, with a broad glossy 
green band on each side, whitish-bordered, uniting and blackening on = 
the nape ; under parts white, the fore breast with circular black spots; ria. 187. Ameri- 
upper parts and flanks closely waved with blackish and white; crissum °*“" "8°" 
black, varied with white or creamy; speculum rich green, bordered in front with 
buffy tips of the greater coverts, behind with white tips of the secondaries; no 
blue on the wing; bill black; feet gray. @ differs especially in the head mark- 
ings, but those of the wings are the same. Small; 14-15; wing 
73; tail 33; bill 14; tarsus 1}. (Nettion.) 
English Teal. No white crescent in front of the wing; long 
= scapulars black externally, creamy internally. Europe; acci- 
dental on the Atlantic Coast. Cours, Proc. Phil. Acad. 1861, 
PZSSNGMADTACOR) 3) Des giCSs 5 2 «sss. . \« CRECCA- 
Green-winged Teal. A’conspicuous white crescent on the 
pe ae side of the body just in front of the bend of the wing; scap- 
~ winged Teal. ulars plain. N. Am., abundant. Wiuts., viii, 101, pl. 70, 
f. 4; Nort., ii, 400; Aup., vi, 281, pl. 392; Bp., 777. . CAROLINENSIS. 
** Wine-coverts in both sexes sky-blue, the greater white-tipped ; speculum green, 
white-tipped ; axillars and most under wing coverts white; scapulars striped with 
tawny and blue (not in the 9) or dark green; fore back barred; rump and tail 
dark, plain; crissum dark or black; bill black; feet not dark. (Querquedula.) 
Blue-winged Teal. Head and neck of the ¢ blackish-plumbeous, darkest 
on the crown, usually with purplish iridescence ; a white crescent in front of 
the eye; under parts thickly dark-spotted ; 9 with head and neck altogether 
different ; under parts much paler and obscurely spotted ; but known by the 
wing-markings from any species except the next one. 15-16; wing 7; tail 
3; tarsus 14; bill 14-12. Eastern N. Am. to the Rocky Mountains, abun- 
dant; also, Alaska (Dall). Sw. and Ricn., F. B.-A. ii, 444; WILS., Vili, 
7A, pl. 68, f.4; Nurv., ii, 397; Aup., vi, 287, pl. 393; Bp., 779. Discors. 
Cinnamon Teal. 3 with head, neck, and whole under parts, rich 
purplish-chestnut, darkening on crown, chin and crissum, and blackening on 
middle of belly ; rather larger than the last; bill longer, 12-12. 9 with the 
chestnut replaced by mottled brown and tawny, and difficult to distinguish 
from 9 discors; but darker, usually with some chestnut traces; head, and 
especially chin, more spotted; bill longer. A generally distributed S. Am. 
species, now abundant in the U. S. west of the Rocky Mountains ; of casual 
occurrence in the Gulf States (Louisiana, Pélaté; Florida, Maynard). 
