24 GREEN-WINGED TEAL. 
dusky brown, marked with large triangular spots of white; 
back, dark glossy bronze brown, with some gold and greenish 
reflections. Speculum of the wings nearly the same as in the 
male, but the fine pencilling of the sides, and the long hair- 
like tail coverts, are wanting ; the tail is also shorter. 
GREEN-WINGED TEAL. (Anas crecca.) 
PLATE LXX.—Fie. 4. 
Lath. Syn. iii. p. 554.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, v. i. p. 3388. —Peale’s Museum, 
No. 2882. 
BOSCHAS CAROLINENSIS.—JARDINE.* 
Anas Carolinensis, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. p. 874.—Anas migratoria, Least Green- 
winged Teal, Bart. Trav. p. 293.—Anas crecca, varietas, Forst. Phil. Trans. 
Ixii. p. 347. American Teal, Lath. Gen. Hist, x. p. 371.—Anas crecea, Bonap. 
Synop. p. 886.—Anas (Boschas) crecca, var. Worth. Zool. ii. p. 443. 
THE naturalists of Hurope have designated this little duck 
by the name of the American teal, as being a species different 
from their own. On an examination, however, of the figure 
and description of the European teal by the ingenious and 
accurate Bewick, and comparing them with the present, no 
difference whatever appears in the length, extent, colour, or 
markings of either, but what commonly occurs among indivi- 
duals of any other tribe ; both undoubtedly belong to one and 
the same species. 
* Most writers on the ornithology of America have considered this 
bird as a variety of the European teal. All, however, agree in their 
regarding the difference in the variety, and of its being constant in the 
northern specimens. Thus, Dr Latham mentions the white pectoral 
band. Foster says, “This is a variety of the teal, for it wants the two 
white streaks above and below the eyes; the lower one indeed is 
faintly expressed in the male, which has also a lunated bar of white 
over each shoulder; this is not to be found in the European teal.” 
Pennant, “That it wants the white line which the European one has 
above each eye, having only one below; has over each shoulder a 
lunated bar.” The authors of the “ Northern Zoology” observe, “The 
only permanent difference that we have been able to detect, after com- 
paring a number of specimens, is, that the English teal has a white 
longitudinal band on the scapulars, which the other wants. All the 


