I 64 ORNAMENTAL WATERFOWL. 
of chestnut-brown ; upper breast chestnut, spotted with black ; 
back ashy-grey, tinged with yellow, pencilled with undulating 
black lines; sides and flanks the same; scapulars long and 
pointed ; wing-coverts brown ; flight feathers dark brown ; 
wing-bar green, margined with white ; abdomen yellowish-white ; 
bill yellowish-grey ; feet dark brown; eye brown. 
Female.— Head and neck, chin, throat, and upper breast 
pale buff, streaked with darker; sides and flanks yellowish- 
brown ; abdomen and lower part of sides white ; wings brown ; 
wing-bar greenish-blue and black; legs yellowish-orange—in 
one female belonging to Mr. Tomes of Weston, (1846), bluish- 
grey ; bill brownish-olive ; eye brown. 
Young.—wNo information. 
Egg.—‘‘ They are somewhat larger than those of the 
Garganey ; their colour is a pale greyish-green, very like that of 
the eggs of the Mallard” (Taczanowski). “ Bluish-yellow in 
colour” (Middendorff). 
AMERICAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL. 
(Netttum carolinense.  Querquedula carolinensis). 
This species is the American representative of our 
Common Teal, and is an exceedingly rare visitor to our coast. 
An excellent coloured illustration may be found in vol. vii. of 
the late Lord Lilford’s Work on Birds. 
“*Mr. Howard Saunders exhibited an adult male specimen of the 
American Green-winged Teal ( Querqueduia carolinensis J, the property of 
