302 lewis' AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. 



the same as that of the Blue-Winged, and its flesh of like 

 quality. 



DESCRIPTION. 



"The Green-Winged Teal is fifteen inches in length, and 

 twenty-four inches in extent; bill black; irides pale brown; 

 lower eyelid whitish; head glossy reddish-chestnut; from the 

 eye backwards to the nape runs a broad band of rich silky- 

 green, edged above and below by a fine line of brownish- white ; 

 the plumage of the nape ends in a kind of pendent crest ; chin 

 blackish; below the chestnut, the neck, for three quarters of an 

 inch, is white, beautifully crossed with circular, undulating 

 lines of black ; back, scapulars, and sides of the breast white, 

 thickly crossed in the same manner; breast elegantl}'' marked 

 with roundish or heart-shaped spots of black on a pale vina- 

 ceous ground, variegated with lighter tints ; belly white ; sides 

 waved with undulating lines ; lower part of the vent-feathers 

 black; sides of the same brownish- white, or pale-reddish cream; 

 lesser wing-coverts brown ash ; greater tipped with reddish 

 cream ; the first five secondaries deep velvety black, the next 

 five resplendent green, forming the speculum or beauty-spot, 

 which is bounded above by pale bufif, below by white, and on 

 each side by deep black ; primaries ashy-brown ; tail pointed, 

 eighteen feathers, dark drab ; legs and feet flesh-colored. In 

 some, a few circular touches of white appear on the breast near 

 the shoulder of the wing. The windpipe has a small bony 

 labyrinth where it separates into the lungs; the intestines 

 measure three feet six inches, and are very small and tender. 



" The female wants the chestnut-bay on the head, and the 

 band of rich green through the eye, these parts being dusky- 

 white, speckled with black ; the breast is gray brown, thickly 

 sprinkled with blackish, or dark brown ; the back dark brown, 

 waved with broad lines of brownish- white; wing nearly the 

 same as in the male." 



