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SupcENuS MARECA STEPHENS. 
(Male.) 
ANAS AMERICANA Gwel. 
Baldpate. American Widgeon. 
Adult male: Wead speckled black and white; top of the head white; a broad stripe of 
greenish back of the eye to the occiput; chin blackish; upper breast pale ashy lilac or vinaceous ; 
rest of under parts pure white; crissum and under tail coverts black; back ashy vinaceous finely 
pencilled with black; a broad "patel of white on the wing; most of the secondaries have the 
outer web black ceded with white; the inner webs are grayish towards the tip ; speculum black 
and green, 
Adult female; ead and throat whitish, streaked and mottled with black; back grayish 
brown; tertials dusky edged with whitish. 
Length, 19; Wing, 10.50; Tarsus, 1.60; Bill, 1.40. 
This species ranges nearly throughout North America but does not breed 
on the Atlantic coast as far as known. It is very common in winter in 
Florida occurring along the Gulf to Central America and Northern South 
