FAMILY ANATID/E. DUCKS, GEESE, AND SWANS. 



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Bill, less than one inch wide near tip; head, lined and speckled with brown and 

 brownish white; speculum, not metallic green; axillars, white, barred with brown; rump 



and tail coverts, brown, narrowly edged and banded with 

 white; feet, dusky (female). 



Dafila acuta. Pintail Duck. 

 Axillur. Daflla acuta. See No. 100. 



Belly, white, with more or less brown spots; axillars, white; bill, less than .90 

 wide at widest part (female). Anas strepera. Gadwall. 



See No. 92. 



Belly, more or less spotted ; throat, white ; rump, olive brown ; secondaries, metallic 

 green, tipped with white; axillars and under wing coverts, heavily barred; toes, yellowish in 

 life (female). Aix sponsa. Wood Duck. Summer Duck. 



See No. 101. 



* Group 3. Wing, from 10 to 14 inches long. 



Section 1. Hind toe, without membraneous lobe or flap; 

 belly, white, sometimes faintly tinged with dusky or 

 gray on lower part. 



Axillars, white ; the shafts, white ; exposed speculum, black 

 and white; head, tawny brown; cheeks and throat, tawny, 

 speckled with brown (male). 



Anas strepera. Gadwall. Creek Duck. 



See No. 92. 



Axillars, white; the shafts, white; head, speckled; 



exposed speculum, black and white (female). 



Anas strepera. Gadwall. Creek Duck. 



See No. 92. 



Axillars, white with dark shafts; speculum, green and black; white patch on 

 shoulder; top of head, white (male). Anas americana. American Widgeon. Baldpate. 



See No. 94. 



* For directions for measurement, see page 9. 



