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U. S. p. K. K. EXP. AI?D SURVEYS ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT. 



Sp. Ch — Head and neck all round chestnut ; chin black ; forehead dusky. Region round the eye, continued along the side 

 of the head as a broad stripe, rich green, passing into a bluish black patch across the nape. Under parts white, the feathers of 

 the jugulum with rounded black spots. Lower portion of neck all round, sides of breast and body, long feathers of flanks and 

 scapulars beautifully and finely banded closely with black and grayish white. Outer webs of some scapulars, and of outer secon- 

 daries black, the latter tipped with white ; speculum broad and rich green ; wing coverts plain grayish brown, the greater coverts 

 tipped with buff. A white crescent in front of the bend of the wing ; crissum black, with a triangular patch of buffy white on 

 each side. Lower poition of the green stripe on each side of the head blackish, with a dull edge of whitish below. 



Female with the wings as in the male. The under parts white, with hidden spots on the jugulum and lower neck ; above 

 dark brown, the feathers edged with gray. 



Length, 14 inches ; wing, 7.40 ; tarsus, L14 ; commissure, 1.68. , 



Hab. — Whole of North America ; accidental in Europe. 



Males vary in having the under parts sometimes strongly tinged with ferruginous brown. 



List of specimens. 



NETTION CRECCA, Kaup. 



English Teal. 



Jnas crecca, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 204.— Gmelin, 1, 1788, 532.— Temminck, Man. II, 846. 

 Q,uerquedula crecca, Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII, (, 1824, 146. 

 " Jfettion crecca, Kaup, Entw. Europ. Thiorw. 1829." 



Sp. Ch. — Similar in size and general appearance to Meltion carolinensis. No white crescent in front of the bend of the wing ; 

 the elongated scapulars black externally ; internally creamy white. 

 Hab. — Europe. Accidental on the eastern coast of the United States. 



This species is exceedingly similar to the common green-wing teal, but is readily distinguish- 

 able on comparison. The lower border of the green on the side of the head, and a curved line 

 running very near the anterior and superior outline of the side of the head, are quite distinctly 

 whitish, instead of being merely obeoletely paler, as in the other. The transverse bands of the 

 upper parts and sides are more sharply defined and rather more distant. The band at the end 

 of the greater coverts is broader and whiter, that at the end of the lesser is narrower. The 



