GREEN-WINGED TEAL. 



Anas carolinensis Gmel. 



The adult male has the head and neck reddish-chest- 

 nut and a broad band of metallic green on either side, 

 running from the eye to the back of the neck, where 

 the two meet in a tuft. The under side of this green 

 band is margined with a narrow line of buff; the chin 

 is black ; the breast is reddish cream-color, dotted 

 with round or oval spots of jet black. There is a collar 

 round the lower part of the neck ; the sides of the 

 breast, back of lower neck and of the body are finely 

 waved with lines of black upon white ground. The back 

 is similarly marked and the lower back is brownish- 

 gray. The upper tail-coverts are dark, margined with 



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