104 RIVER DUCKS. 



to the nape, glossy green, more or less sprinkled with black : lores, checks, 

 and throat buffy, finely barred with black: upper l>iv;:-t :iiul */,/,* vinaccous, 

 the latter more or leas finely barred with wavy black lines; lower breast and 

 belly white; back grayish brown, more <-r less tinned with vinaceous and 

 finely barred with black. Ad. 9. Head and throat white or pale, creamy 

 buff, finely streaked and barred with black, darker above; upper breast and 

 idea pale vinaceous washed witli grayish ; lower bre:ist and belly white ; back 

 grayish brown, the feathers with small creamy buff bars ; tertials fuscous, bor- 

 dered with irhitixh or creamy butf; greater wing-coverts brownish gray, their 

 outer webs mostly or entirely white, their cuds black, sometimes tipped with 

 white. L., 19-00; W., 10-60; Tar., 1-50 ; B., 1-40. 



Range. North America; breeds in the interior regularly from Mil 

 northward, and casually as far south as Texas; nt known to breed on the 

 Atlantic coast; winters from open water south to Central America and north- 

 ern South America. 



Washington, common W. K., Oct to A pi. Long Island, uncommon T. V., 

 Oct to Apl. Sing Sing, common T. V., Mdi. 11 to Apl. 12; Oct. 4 to Oct. ^. 



Eggt, seven to twelve, bully white, 'J-05 x 1-50. 



Colonel N. S. Goss writes that, as a rule, Widgeons are " n<>t shy, 

 and their note, a sort of irhi u\ u-hi-n; /'/,,//, uttered while feeding and 

 swimming, enables the hunter to locate them in the thickest growth 

 of water plants: and when in the air tin- whistling noise made liv their 

 wings heralds their approach." They are fond of wild celery, which 

 they procure by robbing the Canrasback and other diving Ducks, 

 "snatching their catch from their bills the moment their heads appear 

 above the water." 



139. Anas carolinensis '////.,'. GREEN-WINGED TEAL. Ad. >, . 

 Chin black, sides of the head from the eye to the nape shining green, rest 

 of the head and neck rufous-chestnut ; breast washed with vinaceous and 

 spotted with black; belly white; sides finely marked with wavy blaek and 

 white lines ; middle under tail-coverts black, lateral ones creamy bun"; upper 

 back like the sides, lower back grayish fuscous ; a u~hlt> fmr in 1'mnt of the 

 bend of the wing; wing-coverts brownish gray, tipped with oehraceous butfy. 

 Ad. 9 . Top of the head brownish fuscous, margined with cinnamon ; throat 

 and sides of the neck white, finely spotted with black ; breast and sides 

 washed with cinnamon and spotted or barred with black ; belly and under 

 tail-coverts white, sometimes spotted with black; back fuscous, the feathers 

 with crescent-shaped marks of oehraceous buffy, and bordered with grayish ; 

 wings as in the male. L., 14-50; W., T'OO ; Tar., 1-10 : B., 1 ".". 



H'unjf. North America; breeds from Minnesota and New Brunswick 

 northward ; winters from Kansas and Virginia southward to the West Indies 

 ami Central America. 



Washington, common W. V., Sept. to Apl. Long Island, uncommon T. V. 

 and W. V., Oct. to Apl. Sin^ S'm_r. common T. V., Apl.; Sept 11 to Oct 28. 

 Cambridge, uncommon T. V., Apl.; Sept. to Nov. 



i six to twelve, buffy white or creamy buff, 1'SO x 1-25. 



