BLUE-WINGED TEAL. 14-9 



with black : over each shoulder is a lunated white 

 bar : the back is undulated with black and white : 

 the rump is inclining to brown : the wing- coverts 

 are brown : the speculum green : legs dusky. The 

 female is reddish-ashy-brown, spotted with black : 

 the wings are similar to those of the male. 



Found in North America, from Hudson's Bay to 

 Carolina : it retires south in the autumn : it lays 

 from five to seven eggs, and affects woods in the 

 vicinity of water. This is probably the same as the 

 preceding. 



BLUE-WINGED TEAL. 



(Querquedula discors.) 



Qu. tectricibus alarum cteruleif, remigibus secundariis extus viri- 

 dibus, fascia frontali alba (mas.) : out tectricibus alarum c<eru~ 

 leis, corpore griseo-Jusco subtus griseo, specula alarum viridi, 

 fascia, superiore alba (femina.) 



Teal with the wing-coverts blue, the secondary quills outwardly 

 green, and a white frontal fascia (male) : or with the wiug- 

 coverts blue, with the body grey-brown, beneath grey, the 

 wing-speculum grey, with a band of white above (female.) 



Anas discors. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 205. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 

 535. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 854. 



Querquedula Americana. Briss. Orn. 6. 452. 



Sarcelle soucrourou. Buff: Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 279. Buff". PI 

 Enl 966. 



White-faced Duck. Catesby, Carol. I. pi. 100. Penn. Arct. 

 Zool. 2. 503. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 502, 503. 



FEMALE. Querquedula Virginiana. Briss. Orn. 6. 455. 



