526 BIBDS — ASATIBM. 



spring, when it is shy and suspicious ; in fall less abundant and less 

 wary. Perhaps a few remain through the summer and breed. 

 The eggs are of a pale buff-eolor and measure 2.00 by l.SO. 



Note. — The Enropean Widgeon (Mareea penehpe) may yet be detected as an aecidental 

 visitor. It is of casnal occurrence on the Atlantic coast, and has been taken in Wisoon- 

 sin, Illinois and CaUfomia. 



Similar to the above, but head and neck reddish-brown, scaroely varied, top of head 

 creamy or brownish-'wliite, its sides with mere traces of green. 



Genus QUEEQUBDULA. Stephens. 

 Bill a little longer than head or foot, tail not one-half wing. 

 Sub-genus Nettion. Head sub-crested. 



Qderqdedula caeolinensis (Gm.) 



Groeir-'wiiigecl Teal. 



Anas erecoa, Avdxjbon, Orn. Biog., Lii, 1835, 219.— Kibtlamd, Ohio G^log. Sniv., 18S8, 



166, 186. 

 Aims earoUnensis, Audubon, B. Am., vi, 1843, 243. 



Nettion caroUneneis, Whbaton, Ohio Agrio. Rep. for 1860, 370 ; Reprint, 1861, 12. 

 Querqueduki earoUnemia, Whbaton, Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Eep. for 1874, 574 ; 



Reprint, 1875, 14. — Langdon, Cat. Birds of Gin., 1877, 17 ; Revised List, Jonm. 



Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 185 ; Reprint, 19. 

 Teal, KntTLAND, Fam. Visitor, 1850, 72. 



Anas creoca, Wu-SON, Am. Om.. vii, 1814, 101. 



Anae carolmen$is, Gmblin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 533. 



Nettion earoUnensis, Batrd, Birds N. A., 1858, 777. 



Querguedula earolm^nsis, Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xii, 1824, 128. 



Head and upper neck chestnut, with a broad glossy green band on each side, uniting 

 and blackening on the nape ; under parts white or whitish, the fore-breast with oircnlar 

 black spots ; upper [parts and flanks closely waved with blackish and white ; a white 

 crescent in front of the wing ; orissum black, varied with white or creamy ; speonlnm rich 

 green bordered in front with bufly tips of the greater-coverts, behind with light tips 

 of secondaries; no blue on the wing; bill black; faet gray. Female differs in the 

 head markings, bat those of the wing are the same. Small ; length, 14-15 ; wing, 7i ; 

 tan, 3| ; bill, li ; tarsus, IJ. 



Habitat, North America. Greenland. Klexioo. Cuba. Soath to Hondiiras. Breeds 

 from the northern border of the United States northward. 



Abundant spring and fall migrant. Frequently found in small brooks 

 and ponds as well as in larger waters. 



Eggs, pale dull greenish, 1.T5 to 1.90 in length by 1.20 to 1.30 in 

 breadth. 



Snb-genus Querg^tedMa, Hiead not crested. 



