KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. 



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Subgenus MARECA Stephens. 



(Male.) 



ANAS AMERICANA Gmel. 

 Baldpate. American Widgeon. 



Adult male : Head speckled black and white ; top of the head white; a broad stripe of 

 greenish back of the eye to the occiput ; chin blackish ; upper breast pale ashy lilac or vinaceous : 

 rest of under parts pure white; crissum and under tail coverts black; back ashy vinaceous finely 

 pencilled with black ; a broad patch of white on the wing ; most of the secondaries have the 

 outer web black edged with white : the inner webs are grayish towards the tip : speculum lilack 

 and green. 



Ad7ilt female ; Head and throat whitish, streaked and mottled with l)lack ; back grayish 

 brown; tertials dusky edged with whitish. 



Length, I9; Wing. 10.50: Tarsus, 1.60: Bill, 1.40. 



This species ranges nearly throughout North America but does not breed 

 on the Atlantic coast as far as known. It is ver}^ common in winter in 

 Florida occurring along the Gulf to Central America and Northern South 



