402 ANSERES. 



PLAIN BLUEWING.* 

 Cyanopterus inornatus. MIHI. 



THE Teal which from the absence of the white 

 crescent in both sexes, I have thus named, is well 

 known in Jamaica, and has probably been mistaken 

 for the female of discors, with which it associates. 

 Its manners are said to be identical with those of 

 its congener. It much resembles C. Fretensis of 

 Eyton, but has not the broad yellow spot on the 

 beak, nor the barred flanks. 



The stomachs of such as I have dissected, con- 

 tained small seeds, and coarse sand. One was 

 brought me alive in March ; its voice, when alarmed, 

 was a very subdued hissing, like that of a goose, 



* Length 15| inches, expanse 24^-, flexure 7, tail 2^, breadth of 

 beak .&, height , rictus 1^, tarsus 1-&, middle toe If. 



Irides hazel ; beak black ; feet dusky clay colour ; (in summer, 

 yellow.) Crown and hind-head dark brown, speckled with pale dashes ; 

 sides of head paler brown, with black specks ; throat and chin drab- 

 white. Lower neck, back, and tail-coverts bistre, with horse-shoe lines 

 of pale brown. Scapulars dark brown, with green gloss, a narrow border 

 of pale brown. Wing-coverts pale blue ; winglet, primaries, and primary 

 coverts blackish, with pale inner webs ; secondary greater-coverts white, 

 with large spots of metallic green, which sometimes become disks. 

 Secondaries, outer webs rich golden-green, edge of tips pale ; tertials 

 long, pointed, brown with pale shafts, slightly glossed. Tail feathers 

 dark brown, with pale edges, and transverse spots on the outmost. 

 Breast, belly, vent, and under tail-coverts silky drab, irregularly mottled 

 and spotted with blackish ; sides marked with horse-shoes of dark brown 

 and pale. Inner surface of wings white. 



