nest along the salt-water marshes, especially those of 

 Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties. 



Color Male The male bird cannot well be mistaken 

 for that of any other species. The general color being 

 a dark cinnamon, or in fact much nearer a chestnut in 

 color; the head being somewhat darker than the rest 

 of the bird; the upper wing-coverts being blue, form a 

 large patch of blue at the shoulders when the wing is 

 at rest; the speculum, like that of all the teal is green. 



Female The female resembles the female of the 

 blue-winged teal, but is a little larger with a longer and 

 slimmer body; the chin is dusky and the throat is 

 speckled; the breast also has a slight tinge of the cin- 

 namon color of the male. 



Nest and Eggs The nests are built generally in long 

 grass patches of the low grounds bordering the streams 

 and lakes and even the salt marshes. The eggs which 

 average about a dozen are of a peculiar light creamy 

 coior with a faint bluish tinge. 



Measurements Total length, 16 inches; wing, 7%; 

 bill, 1%. 



THE BLUE-WINGED TEAL 



(Anas discors) 



The blue-winged teal is only a straggler north of 

 Lower California, Arizona and Mexico. In Mexico and 

 Lower California I know them to be quite common, and 

 reasonably plentiful in some parts of Arizona. 



The blue-winged teal is a plumper bird than either 

 of the other species, and not near so handsomely 

 marked. It is a rapid flyer and affords good shooting in 

 those sections where it is plentiful. 



Color Male Head, a glossy purplish gray, darker on 

 top; between the eye and the bill is a white crescent- 

 shaped mark about one-fourth wider in its center than 

 the eye; the wing-coverts are blue like those of the 

 cinnamon teal; back, dark gray; under parts, gray, 

 spotted with black; speculum, rich green; bill, black, 

 and legs and feet, yellow. 



Female The female resembles the female of the cin- 

 namon teal; but unlike the cinnamon it has no dark 

 markings under the chin, or any of the cinnamon color 

 faintly seen on the cinnamon female. The bill also is 

 much shorter, and the legs are of a yellowish tinge. 



Nest and Eggs The nests are much the same as the 

 other members of the teal family. The eggs about a 

 dozen in number are pale buff. 

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