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390. 5. Anas Americana, Gmel. American Widgeon. 
Plate CCCXLV. Male and Female. 
Tail short, pointed, of sixteen feathers. Male with the bill and feet 
light greyish-blue ; upper part of head white, more or less mottled 
with dusky on the sides ; loral space and cheeks reddish-white, dotted 
vith greenish-black ; a broad band from the eye to behind the occi- 
put deep green ; lower part of hind neck, scapulars, and fore part of 
back, minutely transversely undulated with brownish-black and light 
brownish-red ,* the hind part similarly undulated with blackish-brown 
and greyish-white ; smaller wing-coverts brownish-grey ; primary 
quills and coverts dark greyish-brown ; secondary coverts white, tip- 
ped with black ; speculum duck-green, anteriorly bounded by the 
black tips of the secondary coverts, black behind, internally black 
with white streaks, the inner elongated secondaries having their outer 
webs black, margined with white, their inner webs brownish-grey ; 
tail-feathers light brownish-grey ; throat brownish-black, lower part 
of neck in front, and fore part of breast light brownish-red ; breast, 
belly, and sides of rump, white ; sides of body finely undulated with 
white and dusky ; rump beneath and lower tail-coverts black. Fe- 
male similar, with less white on the head, the baek duller and less 
undulated ; the wings greyish-brown, the secondary coverts tipped 
with white, secondary quills brownish-black, inner greyish-brown, all 
margined with white ; tail-feathers greyish-brown, edged with white, 
lower parts white, except the feathers of the sides and under the tail, 
which are broadly barred with dusky and light reddish-brown* Per- 
haps not distinct from Anas Penelope. 
Male, 20^, 34|. Female, 18, 30. 
Breeds in Texas, and in the Northern Districts. Abundant in the 
south and west in winter. Columbia River. Middle Atlantic districts 
in autumn and spring. 
American Widgeon, Anas americana, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. viii. p. 86. 
Anas americana, Bonap. Syn. p. 384. 
Mareca americana, Steph. American Widgeon, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. 
V. ii. p. 445. 
American Widgeon, Anas americana, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 389. 
American Widgeon, Anas americana. Add. Om. Biog. v. iv. p. 337. 
391. 6. Anas acuta, Linn. Pintail Duck. 
Plate CCXXVII. Male and Female. 
Tail tapering, of fourteen tapering feathers, of which the two middle 
project far beyond the rest. Male with the bill black, the sides of 
upper mandible pale blue ; feet greyish-blue ; head, throat, and upper 
part of neck anteriorly greenish-brown, faintly margined behind with 
purplish-red ; a small part of hind neck dark green ; the rest and the 
upper part in general beautifully undulated with very narrow bars of 
brownish-black and yellowish-white, smaller wing-coverts, alula, and 
