THE GREEN-WINGED TEAL. 
Anas Carolinensis. 
THE BLUE-WINGED TEAL. 
Anas Discors. 
In this present month, the sport of duck-shooting on 
the inland streams, rivers, and lakelets, may be held to 
commence in earnest, as contrasted to the pursuit of the 
same tribes on the outer bays, estuaries, and surf-banks. 
‘About the end of September, and thenceforth through 
this and the next ensuing month, according to the varia- 
tions of the’seasons, and the longer or shorter endurance 
of that delicious time, the most delicious and most gor- 
geous of the whole American year, known throughout 
this continent as Indian Summer, the Mallard, and the 
two beautiful species which we have placed at the head 
of this article, begin to make their appéarance on the 
little lakes of the interior, and in the various streams 
and rivers which fall into them, and thence downward to 
the Atlantic seaboard. 
In the vast northern solitudes of the great lakes of the 
northwest, in all the streams of Upper Canada, even to 
