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NEW YORK STATK MUSEUM 



European teal. Nettion crecca (Linnaeus). Fwm Hudson's British Birds, i nat. size 



one taken in the Montezuma marshes April 10, 1902. Two males from 

 Merrick, L. I. taken about December 17, 1900, reported by Braislin [Atik, 



19: 145]- 



Nettion carolinensis (Gmelin) 

 Grcoi-wingcd Teal 



Plate 13 



Anas carolinensis Gmelin. Syst. Nat. 1788. 1:533 



DeKav. Zool. N. Y. 1S44. pt 2, p. 340, fig. 240 

 A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 139 



caroliucn'sis, of Carolina 



Description. Male: Head slightly crested, rich chestnut -brown, with 

 black chin and a large patch of glossy green extending backward from the 

 eye to the end of the crest where it meets its fellow, tawny black on its 

 lower border and margined with a thin white line, more or less distinct; a 



