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body, yellowish-brown, marked with greyish-brown ; 
breast and abdomen white, the former spotted with 
brown; lower tail-coverts greyish-white, mottled 
with brown; tail and upper tail-coverts dark brown, 
glossed with green; rump, back, and hind neck, 
dark brown, glossed with green and purple; bill 
dusky, feet dull green. The crest less than that 
of the male, and plain dull brown. Length twenty 
inches ; wing eight inches and a half. 
This is an extremely beautiful duck, but of mode- 
rate size; it is rare on the sea-coast, but absolutely 
swarms during the month of September among the 
lily-pads of the Western swamps. Fed upon the 
berry of this plant, called at the South chincapin, it 
becomes fat and deliciously tender. It does not 
pay much attention to decoys. 
GREEN-WINGED TEAL. 
Anas, 
Anas Crecca, Wils. 
Specific Character—Bill black, short, and nar- 
row; the outer webs of the first five secondaries 
black, tipped with white; the next five plain rich 
green, forming the speculum; secondary coverts 
tipped with pale reddish-buff. Adult male with a 
dusky band at the base of the bill, of which color is 
the throat ; a faint white band under the eye; upper 
part of the neck, sides of the head, and the crown, 
chestnut brown; a broad band of bright green com- 
mencing behind the eye, passing down on the nape, 
