NETTION. 193 
160. NETTION CRECCA (Linneus). 
EUROPEAN TEAL. 
Anas crecca LINN&US, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 126. 
Nettion crecca SALVAbDORI, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1895), 27, 243; McGrecor 
and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 38. 
Nettium crecca BLANForRD, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 443, fig. 114 
(head); SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 218; Oares, Cat. Birds’ Eggs 
(1902), 2, 169. 
Calayan (McGregor); Luzon (Whitehead); Mindoro (? Platen). Palaearctic 
Region, wintering in northern Africa, in Arabia, Persia, India, Ceylon, Burmah, 
China and Japan; accidental in Greenland and eastern United States. 
“Adult male-—Head and upper neck chestnut; a glossy green patch on 
each side of the head from the eyes backward to upper nape; a narrow 
buffy line from the gape upward along the base of the upper mandible 
and from thence to the eye, bordering above and below the anterior part 
of the green patch; chin black; hind neck, back, and scapulars with 
narrow gray and black wavy lines; outer scapulars buff, broadly edged with 
black on the outer web; upper tail-coverts black, edged with buffish 
brown; on the middle of the neck a collar of whitish and black cross- 
lines; breast and abdomen white, the former with round subapical black 
spots; sides and flanks waved with narrow black lines; central under 
tail-coverts velvet-black, the lateral ones of a buff-color, with a band of 
black at the base; upper wing-coverts lead-gray, the greater row whitish 
buff, darker toward the inner ones; wing-speculum on the secondaries 
velvety black, with a white apical band on the outer half, glossy green 
on the inner half; first tertial velvet-black on the outer web; primaries 
and tail-feathers grayish brown, the later with pale edges; under wing- 
coverts gray, edged with white, the central ones and the axillars wholly 
white. Bill nearly black; iris hazel; legs, toes, and membranes brownish 
gray. Length, 368; wing, 184; tail, 76; culmen, 40; tarsus, 28. 
‘““Female.—General color of the upper parts dark brown, each feather 
with reddish brown edges; upper part of the head darker than the sides, 
which are whitish, thickly speckled with black; a black line behind the 
eyes; chin and throat whitish; the feathers of the back and scapulars 
with two, narrow, transverse, bars of buffy brown; under parts whitish, 
with a reddish tinge on the breast, each feather, except those of the 
belly, with obscure dark centers ; wing as in the male but somewhat duller. 
“Young in first plumage closely resembles the female, but the wing- 
coverts have pale edgings, and the dark centers of the feathers appear 
also on the belly. 
“Males in molting plumage resemble the adult females. 
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