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ANAS CAR0L1NENSIS— STEPH. 

 AMERICAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 



Green-Winged Teal, Anas crccca, Wils. 



Anas erecca, Uonap. 



American Teal, Anns crerca, Nutt. 



Anas crecca, Grrcn-Wn ged Teal, Sw. & Rich. 



Green- Winged Teal, Anas crccca, And. 



Specific Charade)- — Bill black, short and narrow, the outer wets 

 of the fust five secondaries black, tipped with white, the next five 

 plain rich green, forming the speculum, secondary coverts tipped 

 with pale reddish buff. Adult male with a dusky band at the base 

 of the bill, of which color is the throat ; a faint white line under the 

 eye ; upper part of the neck, sides of the head and the crown chest- 

 r.ut-brown : a broad band of bright green, commencing behind the 

 eye, passing down on the nape, where it is separated by the termi- 

 nal poition of the crest, which is dark blue; lower part of the hind- 

 neck, a small space on the fore-neck, and the sides of the body un- 

 dulated with lines of black and white: lower portion of the fore- 

 neck and upper part of the breast, reddish-brown, distinctly marked 

 with round spots of brownish-black: abdomen yellowish-white, 

 faintly undulated with dusky; a patch of black under the tail: outer 

 t ail-feathers buff, inner white, with a large spot of black on the in- 

 ner webs ; tail brown margined with whitish, the cuter feathers 

 greenish-black. Upper parts brown, faintly undulated with black 

 and white, on the fore part of the back ; outer scapulars similar, with a 

 portion of their outer wabs black ; lesser wing-coverts brown ash „ 

 greater coverts tipped with reddish-cream. The first five seconda. 

 ries velvety-black ; the next five bright green, forming the specu- 

 lum, which is bounded above by pale reddish buff, and on each side 

 by deep black ; before the wing, a transverse, broad, white band. 



Female smaller. Head and neck streaked with brownish-white 

 and dusky, darker on the upper part of the head. Lower parts red. 

 dish-brown, the feathers margined with dusky, upper parts dusky 

 brown, the feathers margined and spotted with pale reddish-white 

 without the chestnut red, and the green on the head, the black patch 



