96 The Water-fowl Family 



buff patch on each side of crissum ; under tail-coverts, black ; 

 bill, black ; legs and feet, dark brown ; webs, dusky. 



Measurements — Length, 14.50 inches; wing, 7.25 inches; culmen, 

 1.50 inches; tarsus, 1.25 inches. 



Adult female — Top of head and neck, brown, feathers edged with 

 ochraceous ; sides of head and neck, light buff, speckled with 

 dusky ; chin and throat, buff; upper parts, dusky, feathers barred 

 and margined with pale buff; wing, similar to male ; rump, tail, 

 and upper tail-coverts, brown, edged with white ; upper part of 

 breast, dark buff, spotted with brown ; rest of under parts, white, 

 with dusky spots ; legs and feet, brown ; webs, dusky. 



Measurements — Length, 14.25 inches; wing, 6.70 inches; culmen, 

 1.40 inches ; tarsus, 1 inch. 



Young male — Like the female, but under parts, except sides, pure 

 white. The wing is usually brighter. 



Downy young — Upper parts, grayish brown, a buff spot on each 

 side of back and rump ; head, neck, and lower parts, pale buff; 

 top of head, darker brown. 



Eggs — Eight to sixteen in number, pale buff in color, and measure 

 1.80 by 1.30 inches. 



Habitat- — Breeds from Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Vermont, 

 Quebec, possibly Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, and Ontario, 

 Minnesota, South Dakota, Utah, and Oregon, and south in the 

 mountains to Colorado, Arizona, and probably New Mexico, 

 north to Labrador, possibly Greenland, Fort Anderson, Kotzebue 

 Sound, and St. Michael, Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands. Win- 

 ters from Maryland, casually north to Maine, western New York, 

 Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska, Texas, Nevada, Brit- 

 ish Columbia, and the Aleutian Islands, south to the West 

 Indies, Central America, and Lower California. Recorded from 

 Great Britain, Bermuda, and Hawaii. 



This beautiful bird resembles almost exactly the 

 European variety. While well known through- 

 out our country it is not particularly common 

 on the Atlantic Coast. The green-winged teal 

 breeds farther north than the blue-winged, and 



