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length fifteen inches ; wing seven inches and a 

 half. 



This is an excellent little duck, too confiding for its 

 own security, but capable of saving itself by great 

 rapidity of flight. It is greatly attracted by decoys, 

 and will generally alight among them if permitted. 



Blue-Winged Teal. 



Anas Discors, Wils. 



Specific Character. — Bill bluish-black and long in 

 proportion with the other dimensions of this species ; 

 smaller wing-coverts light-blue ; speculum purplish- 

 green. Adult male with the upper part of the head 

 black ; a broad band of white on the sides of the 

 head, before the eye margined with black ; rest part 

 of the head, and uj>per part of the neck greyish-brown, 

 with purple reflections on the hind neck ; chin black ; 

 lower parts reddish-brown ; lower part of the fore 

 neck and sides of the body spotted with blackish- 

 brown ; breast and abdomen barred with the same 

 color ; lower tail-coverts blackish-brown ; tail brown, 

 margined with paler, the feathers pointed, a patch 

 of white on the sides of the rump; back brownish- 

 black, glossed with green ; the feathers on the fore 

 part of the back and lower portion of the hind neck 

 margined with yellowish-white; primaries brown; 

 inner webs of the secondaries same color; outer 

 vanes dark green, which form the speculum; second- 

 ary coverts brown, the outer broadly tipped with 

 white, the inner tipped with blue; tertials dark- 



