BLUE-WINGED TEAL. 583 
On the marshy shores of some of the bays of Lake Cmtario, they are 
often plenty in the months of October and November. I have also 
met with them at Louisville, on the Qhio. 
The Pintail Duck is twenty-six inches in length, and two feet ten 
inches in extent; the bill is a dusky lead color; irides, dark hazel ; 
head and half of the neck, pale brown, each side of the neck marked 
with a band of purple violet, bordering the white; hind part of the 
upper half of the neck, black, bordered on each side by a stripe of 
white, which spreads over the lower part of the neck before ; sides of 
the breast and upper part of the back, white, thickly and elegantly 
marked with transverse, undulating lines of black, here and there 
tinged with pale buff; throat and middle of the belly, white, tinged 
with cream; flanks, finely pencilled with waving lines; vent, white ; 
under tail-coverts, black; lesser wing-coverts, brown ash; greater, 
the same, tipped with orange; below which is the speculum, or beaut; 
spot, of rich, golden green, bordered below with a band of black, an 
another of white; primaries, dusky brown; tertials, long, black, 
edged with white, and tinged with rust; rump and tail-coverts, pale 
ash, centred with dark brown; tail, greatly pointed, the two middle 
tapering feathers being full five inches longer than the others, and 
black, the rest, brown ash, edged with white; legs, a pale lead color. 
The female has the crown of a dark brown color; neck, of a dull 
brownish white, thickly speckled. with dark brown; breast and belly, 
pale brownish white, interspersed with white; back, and root of the 
neck above, black, each feather elegantly waved with broad lines of 
brownish white — these wavings become rufous on the scapulars ; vent, 
white, spotted with dark brown; tail, dark brown, spotted with white ; 
the two middle tail-feathers half an inch longer than the others. 
The Sprigtail is an elegantly formed, long-bodied Duck, the neck 
longer and more slender than most others. 
BLUE-WINGED TEAL.— ANAS DISCORS.— Fie. 278. 
Le Sarcelle d’Amerique, Briss. vi. p. 452, 35. — Buff. ix. p. 279. Pl. enl. 966.— 
Catesby, i. pl. 100. — White-faced Duck, Lath. Syn. iii. p. 502.— Arct. Zool. 
No. 503. — Peale’s Museum, No. 2846. 
BOSCHAS? DISCORS.— Swainson. 
Anas discors, Cuv. Regn. Anim. i. p. 539. —Bonap. Synop. . 385. — Anas (bos- 
chas) discors. Swain. Journ. Royal Inst. No. iv. p.22.— North. Zool. ii. p. 444 
Tue Blue-winged Teal is the first of its tribe that returns to us in the 
autumn from its breeding place in the north. They are usually seen 
early in September, along the shores of the Delaware, where they sit 
on the mud close to the edge of the water, so crowded together that 
the gunners often kill great numbers at a single discharge. When a 
flock is discovered thus sitting and sunning themselves, the experi- 
enced gunner runs his batteau ashore at some distance below or above 
