No. 10. 



Anas carolinensis. 



Adult male. Above principally grayish ; most of head and 

 upper neck rich reddish brown, or " chestnut bay ;" a green 

 patch, blackened at lower border, surrounding eye, and sweep- 

 ing backward and downward to black tufty feathering of nape ; 

 at lower edge of patch, and beneath the eye, an indistinct brown- 



No. 10. Adult Male. 



ish white line ; bill black, or nearly so. Keck, beneath its red- 

 dish brown portion, with much of upper plumage and sides of 

 body, delicately waved with lines of white and black. Iri- 

 descent wing-mark, or beauty spot," green, framed with black, 

 buff, and white ; and above this a few feathers (starting at inner 

 frame-work of wing) marked lengthwise with black and line of 



