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passes into the gray of the back The back anteiioily and the sides are finely lined transversely with black and white. The 

 wings are plain and bluish gray ; the greater coverts with a terminal bar of purplish buff, below which is a greenish purple 

 speculum, margined behind by black, and tipped w.th white. Longest tertials striped with silvery and greaiish black. 

 Scapulars black, edged witli silvery ; crissum and elongated tail feathers black ; the former edged with white. 



Female with only a trace of the markings of the wing ; t)ie green of the speculum brownish, with a few green spots. Tlie 

 feathers of the back are brown, witli a broad U or V-shaped brownish yellow bar on eacii featlier anteriorly. Sometimes 

 those bars appear in the shape of broad transverse lines. 



Length, 30 to 32 inches; extent, 27; wing, II; tail, 8.60; tarsus, 1.75; commissure, 2.36. 



Ilab. — Whole of North America and Europe. 



The pintail duck is very abundant on the Columbia river, and also on the fresh water lakes 

 near Puget Sound. — S. 



While feeding this duck keeps up a constant gabble. It also, on certain ponds, dives much 

 for its food, bringing up weeds, roots, &c., from the bottom, and, in this respect, somewhat 

 resembling the canvas-back. It is not nearly so shy as the mallard, but more so than the 

 widgeon or teal. It retires to the north early in the spring; this movement is so general, that 

 during the breeding season scarcely a pair is to be seen near Puget Sound. 



The pintail duck is found in immense numbers during the coldest winter weather, both in 

 fresh and salt waters, though it seems to prefer the fresh when not frozen over. — C. 



NBTTION CAROLINENSIS, (G m . ) B a i r d . 



Greeu-winged Teal. 



Anas carolmemis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. L 1768, 533.— Aud. Syn. 1839, 281.— Ib. Birds Anier. VI, 1843,281 ; pi. 392.— 



Reinhdt. Vid. Med. for 1853, {Woi,) 84 (Greenland.) 

 Anas crecca, Wilson, Am. Orn. VIII, 1814, 101 ; pi. Ixx.-Bon. Oba. No. 263.— Ib. Syn. 386 — Aud. Orn. Biog. Ill, 



1853,218: V, 616; pi. 228. 

 Anas (Boschas) crecca, Sw. F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 400.— Nuttai.l, Man. II, 1834, 400. 

 Neltion carolinensis, Bairo, Gen. Rep. Birds, 777. 

 Sp. Ch. — Head and neck all round chestnut ; ehiu black ; fiirebead dusky. Region round the eye, continued along the side of 

 the head as a broad stiipe, rich green, passing into a bluish black patch across the nape. Under parts white, the feaihers of the 

 jugulum with rounded Idack spots. Lower portion of neck all round, sides of breast and body, long feathers of Hanks and scap" 

 ulars beautifully and finely banded closely with black and grayish white. Outer webs of some scapulars, aud of outer secondaries 

 black, the latter tipped with white; speculum broad and rich green; wiug coverts plain grayish bronn, the greater coverts tipped 

 with buff A white crescent iu front of the bend of the wiug ; crissuin black, with a triangular patch of butfy white on each side. 

 Lower portion of the green stiipe on each side of the head blackish, with a dull edge of whitish below. 



Female with the wings as in the male. The under parts white, with hidden spots on the jugulum and lower neck ; above dark 

 brown, the feathers edged with gray ; iris brown ; feet pale gray. 

 Length, 14 to 15 inches; extent, 24 50; wing, 7.40 ; tarsus, 1.14; commissure, 1.C8. 

 Ilab — Whole of North America ; accidental in Europe. 



Extremely abundant in the same situations that the mallard, pintail, and widgeon, are found 

 in. In winter on the northwest coast, as elsewhere, the males and females are found in separate 

 flocks.— S. 



The green-winged teal arrives from the south in March, and frequents fresh ponds chiefly, 

 breeding in the Territory. Some, perhaps, remain during mild winters. — C. 



QUERQUEDULA CYANOPTERA, ( V i e i 1 1 . ) C a s s i n . 



South American, Cinnainon, or Red-breasted Teal. 



Anas cyanoptera, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. V, 1816, 104. 



Querquedula cyanoptera, Cassin, Ulust. I, iii, 1855, 84; pi. xv. — Baird, Gen. Rep. Birds, 780. 



Anas rafflesii, King, Zool. Jour. IV, 1828, 87. 



Pierocyanea rajflcsii, Baird, Zool. Stansbury's Exp. Salt Lake, IS.'iS, 322. 



