WILD FOWL 
/\ Head and neck dark sooty -grey, crown black; 
a wide crescent-shaped white band in front of 
the eye; lesser and median wing-coverts greyish- 
blue American Blue-winged 
Teal: Q. discors S , p. 341, 
h^. Under tail-coverts white, spotted with brownish 
or blackish. 
m^. Sides of the head dull reddish-brown, finely 
streaked with white; crown and throat black; 
wide white bands from behind the eyes uniting 
on the nape Garganey: 
0. querquedula $ , p. 343. 
n®. Sides of the head whitish dotted with brown; 
crown sooty-brown, or brown mottled with 
black ; throat white. 
q*. Lesser and median wing-coverts brownish- 
grey. 
Wing-speculum brilliant deep metallic 
green and black. 
f. Edged internally with white, tinged 
with rufous Common Teal: 
Q. crecca $ , p. 338. 
/. Edged internally with rufous . . American Teal : 
Q. carolinensis ? , p. 340. 
/. Wing-speculum dark brown, slightly 
tinged with metallic green, edged above 
and below with white Garganey: 
Q. querquedula ? , p. 343. 
r\ Lesser and median wing-coverts slate-blue American Blue-winged 
Teal : Q. discors ? , p. 341. 
D. Hind toe widely lobed. {See Figs. 3 and 4.) 
e. Bill broad and flattened or moderately so, at least 0*4 inch 
wide at the tip which is not conspicuously hooked; and is 
never lengthened and cylindrical. 
Head and neck uniform black, or uniform deep chest- 
nut, or black glossed with purple and green and pat- 
terned with white, sometimes also white with grey, 
brown, or sea-green : the areas of colour being always 
very sharply defined. (M«/^s.) 
Plumage black, or almost entirely black, with some 
white on the head or wings. 
0 ^ No white on the secondary-quills; wing about 
9*0 inches. 
Head and neck uniform black like the rest 
of the plumage; terminal portion of the first 
primary greatly attenuated Common Scoter: 
(Edemia nigra $ , p. 345. 
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