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length fifteen inches; wing seven inches and a 
half. 
This is an excellent little duck, too confiding for its 
own security, but capable of saving itself by great 
rapidity of flight. It is greatly attracted by decoys, 
and will generally alight among them if permitted. 
BLuE-WINGED TEAL. 
Anas Discors, Wils. 
Specific Character —Bill bluish-black and long in 
proportion with the other dimensions of this species 5 
smaller wing-coverts light-blue ; speculum purplish- 
ereen. Adult male with the upper part of the head 
black ; a broad band of white on the sides of the 
head, before the eye margined with black; rest part 
of the head, and upper part of the neck greyish-brown, 
with purple reflections on the hind neck; chin black ; 
lower parts reddish-brown ; lower part of the fore 
neck and sides of the body spotted with blackish- 
brown; breast and abdomen barred with the same 
color ; lower tail-coverts blackish-brown ; tail brown, 
margined with paler, the feathers pointed, a patch 
of white on the sides of the rump; back brownish- 
black, glossed with green; the feathers on the fore 
part of the back and lower portion of the hind neck 
margined with yellowish-white; primaries brown; 
inner webs of the secondaries same color; outer 
vanes dark green, which form the speculum ; second- 
ary coverts brown, the outer broadly tipped with 
white, the inner tipped with blue; tertials dark- 
