BIEDS — ANATINAE NETTION CAROLINENSIS. 



Inst of specimens. 



Ill 



NETTION, Kaup. 



J^ettion, Kaup, Entwick. 1829. Type Anas crecca, L. (Gray.) 

 Q,uerqwedv,ltt, Bonap. List, 1838. Not of Stephens, 1824. 



Ch.— Bill unusually narrow, longer than the foot ; the sides parallel ; the upper lateral angle not extending back as far as 

 the lower edge. Nail very narrow, linear, and about one-fifth as wide as the bill. 



The European and American species oi Nettion {Querquedula, of Bonaparte, Eyton, &c.) agree 

 in having the head and neck chestnut, with a hroad patch of green on the side of head ; the hreast 

 has rounded black spots ; the upper part and sides are finely waved transversely with black 

 and grayish white ; the crissum is black, edged with creamy yellow ; the wing coverts are 

 plain olive gray, the greater with a terminal bar of fulvous ; the speculum is green, edged exter- 

 nally and internally with black. The diagnoses are as follows : 



A white crescent on the side, just anterior to the bend of the wing. Scapulars plain grayish 

 brown , N. carolinensis- 



No crescent on the sides ; longer scapulars, creamy white internally, velvet black externally. 

 Light lines on the side of head more distinct .....N. crecca. 



NETTION OAEOLINENSIS, Baird. 



Cireen-winged Tea. 



Anas carolinensis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I,'1788, 533— Acd, Syn. 1839, 281.— Ib Birds Amer. VI, 1843, 281 ; pi. 392. 



Reinhdt. Vid. IVfed. for 1853 (1854), 84 (Greenland.) 

 Querquedula carolinensis, St-efh. Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII, 1824, 148. 

 Anas crecca, var. Porster, Phil. Trans, LXII, 1772, 383, 419. 

 Anas crecca, Wiison, Am. Orn. VIII, 1814, 101 ; pi. Ixx.— Bon. Obs. No. 263-.- Ib. Syn. 386.— Aud. Orn. Biog. Ill, 



1853, 318 : V, 616 ; pi. 228. 

 Anas (jBoscftos) crecca, Sw. F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 400.— Nuttall, Man. II, 1834, 400. 

 " Anas sylvatica, Vieillot." 

 American Teal, Pennant, II, 569. — Lath. Syn. Ill, ii, 554. 



Aiignat 18, 1858. 



98 b 



