563 W H I T E-F A C E t) TEAL. 



glofled with green : back, and fcapulars pale ruft and black, elegantly 

 difpofed in narrow tranfverfe waving lines : coverts of the wings 

 ■white : priinaries, coverts of the tail, and vent, black : tail cunei- 

 form; middle feathers black; the reft cinereous: legs duflcy. In 

 Size fuperior to the Englijh Wigeon ; with which it feems to agree 

 in colors and marks, except thofe on the head. 

 Place. Sent from Netu Tork, under the name of the Pheafant Buck : is a 



rare bird there. Found as low as Louifiana. — Bl. Mus. 



503. White- White-faced Teal, Catejby, i. 100. Male. — Blue-wing Teal, Catejby, i. 99. 



f A*^^"' Fern. — Anas Difcors, Lin, Sjji. 205. 



Sarcelle male de Cayenne, ditte le Soucrourou, PL EkI. 966. — Latham, iii. 

 — Lev. Mus. — Bi. Mus. 



T\ With bill and crown black; bafe of the bill bounded by black : 

 between the laft and the eyes a white ftripe, ending on each fide 

 of the chin : cheeks, hind part of head, and whole neck, purplifli 

 ' green : breaft yellow, fpotted elegantly with black : back brown, 

 waved with a lighter color; on the lower part feveral long, narrow, 

 light brown feathers : coverts of the wings fine casrulean : primaries 

 dufky : fpeculum green : vent black : tail brown : legs yellow. The 

 Female is almoft entirely brown ; in parts marked with dufky fpots : 

 the blue on the wings duller than that of the Drake. In Size a little 

 larger than a Teal. 

 Place. ' ' This fpecies is found as high as New Tork. Arrives in Carolina m 

 great plenty, in Augujij to feed oh the rice ; and continues till OSfobert 

 when the rice is got in. In Virginia, where there is no rice, it feeds 

 on wild oats. Is reckoned moft delicious meat. Extends as far 

 fouth as Guiana. 



A Variety ? "pv With crown and upper part of the neck dulky brown : cheeks, 



under part, and fides of the neck, whitifli brown, mottled with 



darker: back, breaft, and belly, marked with great dufky fpots, edged 



with dirty white : coverts of the wings pale fky-blue; lower order 



white : fpeculum rich purple, with a white edge : primaries and rail 



dufky 



