104 EIVEE DUCKS, 



to the nape, glossy green, more or less sprinkled with black ; lores, cheeks, 

 and throat huffy, finely barred with black ; upper breast and sidee vinaoeous, 

 the latter more or lees finely barred with wavy black lines ; lower breast and 

 belly white ; back grayish brown, more or less tinged with vinaoeous and 

 finely barred with black, vld. 9 • — Head and throat white or pale, creamy 

 buff, finely streaked and barred with black, darker above ; upper breast and 

 sides pale vinaoeous washed with grayish ; lower breast and belly white ; back 

 grayish brown, the feathers with small creamy buff bars ; tertials fuscous, bor- 

 dered with whitish or creamy buff; greater wing-coverts brownish gray, their 

 outer webs mostly or entirely white, their ends black, sometimes tipped with 

 white. L., 19-00 ; W., 10-50 ; Tar., 1-50 ; B., 1-40. 



Range. — North America ; breeds in the interior regularly from Minnesota 

 northward, and casually as far south as Texas ; not known to breed on the 

 Atlantic coast ; winters from open water south to Central America and north- 

 em South America. 



Washington, common W. K., Oct. to Apl. Long Island, uncommon T. V., 

 Oct. to Apl. Sing Sing, common T. V., Mch. 11 to Apl. 12 ; Oct. i to Oct. 28. 



JSggs, seven to twelve, buffy white, 2-05 x 1-50. 



Colonel N. S. Goss writes that, as a rule, Widgeons are " not shy, 

 and their note, a sort of whew, whew, whew, uttered while feeding and 

 swimming, enables the hunter to locate them in the thickest growth 

 of -water plants : and when in the air the whistling noise made by their 

 wings heralds their approach." They are fond of wild celery, which 

 they procure by robbing the Canvasback and other diving Ducks, 

 " snatching their catch from their bills the moment their heads appear 

 above the water." 



139. Anas caroUnensis Gmel. GREEw-wmoED Teal. Ad. s . 

 — Chin black, sides of the head from the eye to the nape shining green, rest 

 of the head and neck rufous-chestnut ; breast washed with vinaoeous and 

 spotted with black ; belly white ; sides finely marked with wavy black and 

 whits lines ; middle under tail-coverts black, lateral ones creamy buff; upper 

 back like the sides, lower back grayish fuscous ; a white bar in front of the 

 bend of the wing ; wing-coverts broivnish gray, tipped with oohraceous buffy. 

 Ad. 9 . — Top of the head brownish fuscous, margined with cinnamon ; throat 

 and sides of the neck white, finely spotted with black ; breast and sides 

 washed with cinnamon and spotted or barred with black ; belly and under 

 tail-coverts white, sometimes spotted with black ; back fuscous, the feathers 

 with orescent-shaped marks of ochraceous buffy, and bordered with grayish; 

 wings as in the male. L., 14-50; "W., 7-00 ; Tar., 1-10 : B., 1-35. 



Bange. — North America ; breeds from Minnesota and New Brunswick 

 northward ; winters from Kansas and Virginia southward to the West Indies 

 and Central America. 



Washington, common W. V., Sept. to Apl. Long Island, uncommon T. V. 

 and W. v., Oct. to Apl. Sing Sing, common T. V., Apl. ; Sept. 11 to Oct. 28. 

 Cambridge, uncommon T. V., Apl. ; Sept. to Nov. 



Mgga, six to twelve, buffy white or creamy buff, 1-80 x 1-25. 



