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139 Nettion carol inensis (Gmelin). 

 Green-winged Teal. 



Adult male. Length, 12.50-15. Wing, 6.25-7.25. Head, chestnut; throat 

 and broad band from the eye to the nape, metallic green ; upper parts and sides 

 finely vermiculated, black and white ; speculum, metallic green, preceded by a 

 cinnamon band and edged inside and out by black feathers, the outer white 

 tipped ; a diagonal white bar on the shoulder ; under parts, white ; breast 

 tinged with vinaceous and obscurely spotted with black; under tail-coverts 

 black in the middle. 



Adult female. Above, dusky, varied with buff bars or edgings; head, buff, 

 narrowly streaked with dusky ; under parts and wings as in the male, but 

 breast more buffy, with dusky centers to the feathers. 



Transient and occasional winter resident. Rare on the coast, but, 

 according to Mr. W. W. Justice, Jr., and others, it is seen consistently 

 on Delaware Bay, though not in large numbers. Mr. George E. Hix 1 

 records thirteen in Palisades Park, December 2d, 1905, but Mr. Chap- 

 man regards it as rather uncommon in that vicinity. Mr. Hann 

 reports it uncommon at Summit, 2 and Mr. Fowler 3 on the Upper 

 Delaware, while Mr. Babson 4 says it is rare but regular about Prince- 

 ton. Migrants occur in September and April. 



140 Querquedula discors (Linnaeus). 

 Blue-winged Teal. 



Adult male. Length, 14.50-16. Wing, 7-7.50. Head and neck plumbeous, 

 dusky on crown and glossed with violet on the occiput; a large, curved white 

 patch in front of the eye ; upper part, dusky brown, with curved markings and 

 edgings of buff ; wing speculum, metallic green, preceded by white ; coverts and 

 inner scapulars, light blue; tertials, black, streaked with buff; under parts, 

 white, strongly tinged with cinnamon, especially on the breast, and everywhere 

 barred or mottled with dull black. 



Adult female. Dusky above ; feathers edged with buff ; wings as in male, 

 but blue, less extensive ; under parts similar but whiter, with less spotting ; 

 head, buff, streaked with dusky; throat, white. 



Transient and rarely winter resident. Occurs about the same time 

 and in the same numbers as the preceding, though perhaps rather more 

 plentiful, and, like it, a fresh-water species. 



1 Abst. Linn. Soc., N. Y., XVIII., p. 14. 



2 Wilson Bull., 1905, p. 119. 



8 Cassinia, 1903, p. 47. 



4 Birds of Princeton, p. 36. 



