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abdomen ; back blackish, the feathers on the upper part tipped and 

 edged with brown; upper part of the wings dark chestnut ; quills 

 black. — This is very common in the Island of Sumatra, and called 

 Bilibi. 



130— AMERICAN TEAL. 



Anas Carolinensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 874. Gm. Lin. i. 533. 



migratoria, Least Green-winged Teal, Bart. Truv. 293. 



Crecca var. Phil. Trans, lxii. 419. Fn. Am. \>. 17. 



American Teal, Gen. Syn. vi. 554. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 504. 



LENGTH fourteen inches, breadth twenty-one. Bill black ; 

 head and upper part of the neck fine deep bay; from each eye to 

 the hind head a changeable, broad, green bar ; at the nape a con- 

 spicuous tuft of glossy black feathers, inclining to steel blue; 

 beneath the eye a faint white line ; fore part of the neck and breast 

 spotted with black; over each shoulder a lunated white bar; back 

 waved black and white, inclining to brown on the rump ; wing 

 coverts brown ; speculum green ; on the scapulars a streak or two of 

 black ; the lower feathers white at the tips, forming a narrow bar ; 

 above these a pale rufous patch ; vent black in the middle, curving 

 upwards ; sides of the vent and tail pale tawny, or cream-colour ; 

 body under the wings crossed with numerous slender lines of blackish, 

 like the back; belly white; legs black. 



The female is reddish cinereous brown, spotted with black ; the 

 wings as in the male. 



Inhabits America, from Carolina to Hudson's Bay, breeding in 

 the last ; has from five to seven young ; retires south in autumn: 

 found in Georgia in the winter, and frequents ponds in the spring. 

 The male called the Green-winged Teal, for the speculum in both 

 sexes is green, with the lower half black, bounded before and 

 behind with bufF-colour. It seems much allied to our European 

 Teal. 



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