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KEY TO THK BIlil>S OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



blackish (male) ; sides of head, speckled (dull wliite, dotted with black) ; chin and throat, 

 dusky, tinted with rufous (female). Westeru species rare east of the Mississippi Kivcr. 



Anas cyanoptcra. Cinnamon Teal. 

 See Xo. 98. 

 No blue patch on wing; head, rufous brown with large patch of green through eye 

 touape; speculum, black aud greeu (male); liead, si)eckled. No l)lue patcli on witii;- (ft'iiialc). 



Anas carolinensis. Qreen=winged Teal. 

 See No. 96. 



^ Group 2. Wing, from 8 to 10 inches long. 

 Section 1. Belly, white; no flap or lobe on hind toe. 



Head, green, purple, bhick, aud wliite; chin and upper throat, 

 white; feet, yellow in life (male). 



Aix S2)07isa. Wood Duck. Summer Duck. 

 See No. 101. 

 Head, grayish brown with white 

 stripe throujjh the eye; chin aud up- 

 per tliroat, white; toes, dull yellow in 

 life (female). 



Aix sponsd. Wood Duck. 



Summer Duck. 



See No. 101. 



Aix t^poiisa. 



Head, brown; chin, not white; a white stripe on sides of tlie neck; tail, jiointed i^niale). 



Dajila acuta. Pintail Duck. 



' See No . 100. 



Section 2. Belly, not white ; hind toe, without mem= 



braneous lobe or flap. 



Hill, moic than oni; indi wide near tip; head, green 

 or greenish ; speculum, metallic green; axilla s, white; 



feet, oran,i;i! nul in life (male). 



Spatula clypeata. Shoveller Duck. Broad-bill. 



See No. 99. 



TJill, more than one inch wide near tip; head, nar- 

 ^ rowly streaked and speckled with brown and dull white ; 



A speculum, metallic green; feet, oramje red in life; axil- 



lars, white (female). 



Spatula cli/peala. Shoveller Duck. Broad-bill. 



See No. 99. 

 ■S|(atul:i clype.Tla. 



* For directions for measurement, see page 9. 



