THE GREEN-WINGED TEAL. 



Anas Carolinensis. 



THE BLUE-WINGED TEAL. 



Anas Discors. 



IN this present month, the sport of duck-shooting on 

 the inland streams, rivers, and lakelets, may be held to 

 commence in earnest, as contrasted to the pursuit of the 

 same tribes on the outer bays, estuaries, and surf-banks. 

 About the end of September, and thenceforth through 

 this and the next ensuing month, according to the varia- 

 tions of the seasons, and the longer or shorter endurance 

 of that delicious time, the most delicious and most gor- 

 geous of the whole American year, known throughout 

 this continent as Indian Summer, the Mallard, and the 

 two beautiful species which we have placed at the head 

 of this article, begin to make their appearance on the 

 little lakes of the interior, and in the various streams 

 and rivers which fall into them, and thence downward to 

 the Atlantic seaboard. 



In the vast northern solitudes of the great lakes of the 

 northwest, in all the streams of Upper Canada, even to 



