GREEN-WINGED TEAL. 163 
CHAPTER XV. 
GREEN-WINGED TEAL. 
(Anas Crecca.) 
The Green-winged Teal are very similar to the Blue- 
winged Teal in their habits, but they are more hardy. 
They come later in the fall, and stay until the weather 
is very cold. Their cry is a peculiar one, being a 
shrill whistle, which can be heard a long distance 
through the calm woods. They are found along the 
mud banks of the rivers, resting quietly on the shelter- 
ed shore of a secluded cove, protected from the wind, 
and where they can enjoy the warmsunshine. I have 
often gone along the shore where overhanging willows 
afford excellent blinds, and in my boat slowly drifting 
or sculled along, have had splendid shooting, Jumping 
them out in pairs from the driftwood along the shores, 
or as they flew from the grass at the water’s edge. 
They are hardy little fellows and tenacious of life, 
being expert divers when wounded. 
These birds often afford great pleasure to the young 
hunter, as they are the means of largely swelling the 
number of ducks killed in a given day. He finds an 
enclosed pond, where stillness reigns supreme, guided 
to the spot by the whistling cries of the birds. He 
crawls to the pond, and in the shallow water sees their 
little russet bodies moving along closely together, or 
with sleepy mien passing the time away, half waking and 
indolently blinking their eyes. The youthful Nimrod 
restrains as best he can his growing excitement, rest- 
