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U. S. P. E. R. EXP. AND SUKVEYS ZOOLOGY GENERAL REPORT. 
Sp. Ch — Head and neck all round chestnut ; chin black ; forehead dusky. Region round the eye, continued along the side 
of the head as a broad stripe, rich green, passing into a bluish black patch across the nape. Under parts while, the feathers of 
the jugulum with rounded black spots. Lower portion of neck all round, sides of breast and body, long feathers of flanks and 
scapulars beautifully and finely banded closely with black and grayish white. Outer webs of some scapulars, and of outer secon- 
daries black, the latter tipped with white ; speculum broad and rich green ; wing coverts plain grayish brown, the greater coverts 
tipped with buff. A while crescent in front of the bend of the wing ; crissum black, with a triangular patch of buify white on 
each side. Lower poition of the green stripe on each side of the head blackish, with a dull edge of whitish below. 
Female with the wings as in the male. The under parts white, with hidden spots on the jugulum and lower neck ; above 
dark brown, the feathers edged with gray. 
Length, 14 inches ; wing, 7.40 ; tarsus, 1.14 ; commissure, 1.68. 
Hah. — Whole of North America ; accidental in Europe. 
Males vary in having the under parts sometimes strongly tinged with ferruginous brown. 
List of specimens. 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
0*, 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
Mar. 20, 1847 
April 10, 1841 
Oct. 31, 1840 
13.50 
21.00 
6.75 
Big Bend, Mo 
Oct. 10,1856 
14.00 
21.50 
6.50 
Nelson river, H. B. T. .. 
Great Salt Lake City... 
D. Gunn 
Feb. 14, 1855 
14 
Feet bright yellow,bilI bl'k, 
iris red, gums yellow. 
Rio Rlto, Laguna,N.M. 
Nov. 12, 1854 
Nov. — , 1854 
Oct. lfi, 1851 
Feb. 10, 1854 
Feb. 8, 1854 
Mar. — , 185b 
Dec. — , 1854 
Lt. Whipple...... 
3 
2 
Kenn. and Moll. 
......do 
Camp 118, B. W. Fork.. 
37 
77 
31 
Kenn. and Moll. 
do 
Dr. Kennerly. . 
12.50 
13.00 
13.00 
20.00 
21.00 
22.00 
do 
Maj. Emory 
Boca Grande. Mexico. . 
Bodega, Cal 
Shoalwater bay, W. T.. 
Gov. Stevens . . . 
do 
60 
19 
15.00 
24.50 
Iris brown, bill and feet 
pale gray. 
Jan. 20, 1854 
NETTION CRECCA, Kaup. 
English Teal. 
Anas crecca, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 204.— Gmelin, I, 1788, 532.— Temminck, Man. II, 846. 
Querquedula crecca, Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zoo!. XII, i, 1824, 146. 
" JV'ettion crecca, Kaup, Entw. Europ. Thierw. 1829." 
Sp. Ch. — Similar in size and general appearance to Ncltion carolinensis. No white crescent in front of the bend of the wing ; 
the elongated scapulars black externally ; internally creamy white. 
flab. — Europe. Accidental on the eastern coast of the United States. 
This species is exceedingly similar to the common green-wing teal, but is readily distinguish- 
able on comparison. The lower border of the green on the side of the head, and a curved line 
running very near the anterior and superior outline of the side of the head, are quite distinctly 
whitish, instead of being merely obsoletely paler, as in the other. The transverse bands of the 
upper parts and sides are more sharply defined and rather more distant. The band at the end 
of the greater coverts is broader and whiter, that at the end of the lesser is narrower. The 
