BLUE-WINGED TEAL 



neck, breast and sides purplish brown; abdomen 

 white, under tail coverts black. Bill and feet 

 bluish gray. 



Female. Slightly smaller than male. Head 

 and neck whitish finely streaked with blackish 

 (more heavily on top); no green on sides of 

 head; back buff barred with dusky; wing patch 

 largely blackish, the white in front of it, more 

 restricted than in male ; breast and sides reddish 

 but more or less spotted with dusky. 



Young. Similar to female. 



A migrant occasionally taken on the rivers 

 entering Gatun Lake. 



6. Querquedula discors (Linnaeus) 

 Blue-winged Teal 



Length 393 mm. (15.50 in O; tail 89 mm. (3.50 

 in.). 



Adult male. Head and neck deep gray, black 

 on crown, a broad white crescent bordered with 

 black in front of eye ; back grayish brown marked 

 with buff; a conspicuous area on wing coverts 

 light sky-blue separated from the glossy green 

 wing patch by a white bar; breast and abdomen 

 pale reddish buff spotted and barred with dusky 

 gray; under tail coverts black. Bill dark 

 grayish; feet yellowish. 



Female. Top of head dusky, sides of head 

 and neck dull whitish finely marked with dusky 

 spots, an indistinct dark line through eye; rest 

 of upper parts mainly dusky, the feathers with 

 pale edgings; wings much as in male but blue 

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