4 LAMELLIROSTRAL SWIMMERS — ANSERES. 



the upper border of the ear-coverts, producing a stripe from the eye back. Juguluiu, sides, and 

 flanks more heavily spotted witli dusky. Abdomen sometimes plain, but usually speckled. Bill 

 brownish ; iris brown ; leet pale brown (fleshy in life). 



Young male : Similar to the adult female, but entire abdomen and sides immaculate white. 

 Downy young : Above, grayish brown, witli a light grayish-buft' spot on each side the back, and a 

 similar pair on the rump ; wings crossed near the end by a light grayish-buft" bar. Head, neck, and 





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lower parts light dull buff ; crown and occiput covered by an elongated patch of grayish brown 

 (darker than the back), this scarcely reaching the forehead, but continued down the nape to the 

 ' brown of the back ; a dusky streak behind the eye, not reaching to the occiput ; below the" posterior 

 end of this, an oblong spot of grayish brown. 



Total length, about 14 inches ; extent 20.00 to 24.50 ; wing, 6.25-7.40 ; culmen, 1.40-1.60 ; 

 tarsus, 1.25 ; middle toe, 1.30-1.35. 



Many specimens, both males and females, have the lower parts tinged with ferruginous-orange, 

 like the stain on the head of the Swans and White Geese. Sometimes this tinge pervades the whole 

 under surfoce, and is occasionally so deep as to give the lower parts a uniform ferruginous aspect- 

 Adult females usually have the abdomen and sides thickly spotted or flecked with brown, being 

 thereby readily distinguished from the young males, which have the whole abdomen, etc., immac- 

 ulate white. 



The common Green-winged Teal, so closely allied with the Teal of Europe, has an 

 extended distribution throughout ISTorth America. During the summer it is found 

 in the extreme northern portions from Greenland to Alaska, and in the winter it 

 extends its migrations to Mexico, Central America, and the West India Islands. 



Mr. Leyland met with individuals of this species on the Ulua River in Honduras. 

 Mr. Dresser found it in Southern Texas, but it was not very common. In Western 

 Mexico, according to the observations of Colonel Grayson, it is abundant from No- 

 vember to March. It was seen in flocks, although rarely, by Dr. Kennerly, in 

 Chihuahua. It breeds at least as far south as latitude 42° N., as its nest has been 

 taken in Southern Wisconsin, and it is said to breed in Western Iowa, and thence 

 northward, in favorable situations, throughout the continent, as far north as the 

 Arctic Ocean. 



Captain Bendire found this species a common summer resident in Eastern Oregon, 

 where also it breeds, seeming to be more partial to the smaller mountain streams 

 than to the large bodies of water in the valleys — at least during the seasons of 

 reproduction. 



