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body, yellowish-brown, marked with greyish-brown ; 

 breast and abdomen white, the former spotted with 

 brown ; lower tail-coverts greyish-white, mottled 

 with brown ; tail and upper tail-coverts dark brown, 

 glossed with green ; rump, back, and hind neck, 

 dark brown, glossed with green and purple ; bill 

 dusky, feet dull green. The crest less than that 

 of the male, and plain dull brown. Length twenty 

 inches ; wing eight inches and a half. 



This is an extremely beautiful duck, but of mode- 

 rate size ; it is rare on the sea-coast, but absolutely 

 swarms during the month of September among the 

 lily-pads of the Western swamps. Fed upon the 

 berry of this plant, called at the South chincapin, it 

 becomes fat and delickmsly tender. It does not 

 pay much attention to decoys. 



GREEN-WINGED TEAL. 



Anas. 

 Anas Crecca, Wils. 



Specific Character. Bill black, short, and nar- 

 row ; the outer webs of the first 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 band under the eye ; upper 

 part of the neck, sides of the head, and the crown, 

 chestnut brown ; a broad band of bright green com- 

 mencing behind the eye, passing down on the nape, 



