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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  European 
  teal. 
  Nettion 
  crccca 
  (Linnaeus). 
  From 
  Hudson's 
  British 
  Birds. 
  ^ 
  nat. 
  size 
  

  

  one 
  taken 
  in 
  the 
  Montezuma 
  marshes 
  April 
  lo, 
  1902. 
  Two 
  males 
  from 
  

   Merrick, 
  L. 
  I. 
  taken 
  about 
  December 
  17, 
  1900, 
  reported 
  by 
  Braislin 
  [Auk, 
  

   19: 
  145]. 
  

  

  Nettion 
  carolinensis 
  (Gmelin) 
  

   Green-winged 
  Teal 
  

  

  Plate 
  13 
  

  

  Anas 
  carolinensis 
  Gmelin. 
  Syst. 
  Nat. 
  1788. 
  1:533 
  

  

  DeKay. 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1844. 
  pt 
  2, 
  p. 
  340, 
  fig. 
  249 
  

   A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  No. 
  139 
  

  

  carolinen'sis, 
  of 
  Carolina 
  

  

  Description. 
  Male: 
  Head 
  slightly 
  crested, 
  rich 
  chestnut-brown, 
  with 
  

   black 
  chin 
  and 
  a 
  large 
  patch 
  of 
  glossy 
  green 
  extending 
  backward 
  from 
  the 
  

   eye 
  to 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  crest 
  where 
  it 
  meets 
  its 
  fellow, 
  tawny 
  black 
  on 
  its 
  

   lower 
  border 
  and 
  margined 
  with 
  a 
  thin 
  white 
  line, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  distinct; 
  a 
  

  

  