300 FEATHERED GAME 
The Widgeon is from eighteen to twenty-two 
inches long and in extent varies from thirty to 
thirty-two inches. 
On rare occasions the European widgeon 
visits us. The male of this species varies con- 
siderably from the male of the American bird. 
The principal differences in coloring of the two 
species are found in the markings of the head 
and neck; the Old World’s representative has 
the forehead and crown creamy or buffy white 
and on the sides of the head and neck is marked 
with rufous. There is no decided stripe of 
green behind the eye, though a few spottings 
of metallic color show here. 
The females of the two are hardly distin- 
guished from each other. 
THE GREEN-WINGED TEAL. 
(Nettion carolinensis.) 
The Teals are among the smallest of their 
tribe, and among the finest in point of food qual- 
ities and in beauty of plumage. Of the three 
species native to the North American continent, 
two, the Green-winged and the Blue-winged, are 
well known and highly esteemed by the New, 
