BIRDS — ANATINAE— NETTION CAROLINENSIS. 
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List of specimens. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
Wlien col- 
lected. 
Whence obtained 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
ol'wings. 
Wing. 
Remarks, 
3 
Q 
8 
Nelson river, n. B. T... 
0. Gunn 
Devil's river, Texas .... 
May 4, 1855 
19.50 
30.00 
10.00 
Bill brown, edges yellow, 
eyes brown, gums yellow. 
3 
8 
8 
Feb. 13, 1855 
Mar. 9, 1856 
Feb. 10, 1856 
184 
177 
25.00 
28.00 
46.00 
35.00 
10.50 
do 
11.25 
Mimbres to Rio Grande. 
Dec. — , 1851 
8 
Fort Vancouver, W. T . 
Dec. 9, 1853 
Feb. 2, 1854 
April — , 1854 
Gov. Stevens 
do 
27 
26 
Dr. Cooper .... 
do 
do 
32.00 
18.50 
28.00 
27.00 
24.25 
37.00 
Bill and feet grayish, iris 
dark. 
8.00 
10.50 
8 
NETTION, Kaii p. 
Netlion, Kaup, Entwick. 1829. Type Anas crccca, L. (Gray.) 
Querquedula, Bonap. List, 1838. Not of Stephens, 1824. 
Ch. — Bill unusually narrow, longer than the foot ; the sides parallel ; the upper lateral angle not extending back as far as 
the lower edge. Nail very narrow, linear, and about one-fifth as wide as the bill. 
The European and American species of Nettion (jQuerquedtda, of Bonaparte, Eyton, &c.) agree 
in having the head and neck chestnut, with a broad patch of green on the side of head ; the breast 
has rounded black spots ; the upper part and sides are finely waved transversely with black 
and grayish white ; the crissum is black, edged with creamy yellow ; the wing coverts are 
plain olive gray, the greater with a terminal bar of fulvous ; the speculum is green, edged exter- 
nally and internally with black. The diagnoses are as follows : 
A white crescent on the side, just anterior to the bend of the wing. Scapulars plain grayish 
brown N. carolinensis- 
No crescent on the sides ; longer scapulars, creamy white internally, velvet black externally . 
Light lines on the side of head more distinct ....A 7 , crecca. 
NETTION CAROLINENSIS, Baird. 
Green-winged Tea. 
Anas carolinensis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 533— Aud. Syn. 1839, 281.— Ib Birds Amer. VI, 1843, 281 ; pi. 392. 
Reinhdt. Vid. Med. for 1853 (1854), 84 (Greenland.) 
Querquedula carolinensis, Steph. Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII, 1824, 148. 
Anas crecca, var. Forster, Phil. Trans, LXII, 1772, 383, 419. 
Jlnas crecca, Wilson, Am. Orn. VIII, 1814, 101 ; pi. lxx.— Bon. Obs. No. 263.— Ib. Syn. 386.— Aud. Orn. Biog. Ill, 
1853, 218: V, 616; pi. 228. 
Anas (Boschas) crccca, Sw. F. Bur. Am. II, 1831, 400.— Nuttall, Man. II, 1834, 400. 
" Anas sijlvatica, Vieillot." 
American Teal, Pennant, II, 569. — Lath. Syn. Ill, n, 554. 
i gust 18, 1858. 
98 b 
