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BIRD NAMES. 



[No. 11. 



flanks ; at either side of tail (upon the rump) a patch of white ; 

 feathers immediately beneath tail black. Legs dull yellow. 



Female. Quite differently dressed from drake, excepting 

 wing, which is similar. Most of upper parts dark brown, with 

 narrow pale buff edgings to the feathers ; crown of head and 

 streak running back of eye dark brown ; sides of head and upper 



mm 



Ko. 11. Female. 



neck finely and streakily speckled with dusky brown upon a white 

 ground ; throat white. Lower neck and breast, with sides of bodv, 

 pale buff, mottled with brown ; the buff tint fading to dingy 

 white on belly, where the markings are smaller and less distinct. 



Length, fifteen to sixteen inches ; extent, twenty-six to thirty 

 inches. 



Eange, North America at large, principally east of Rocky 

 Mountains. 



BLUE -WINGED TEAL, or BLUE -WING simply; so termed 

 generally : also known as SUMMER TEAL. This latter name is 

 common at Moriches, Long Island, and I am inclined to believe 

 that I have heard it among the gunners of other localities, but 

 this is the only note I have. 



Called by early writers WHITE-PACED TEAL, and WHITE- 



