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ANAS. 
before with reddish- white ; tail brownish-grey, the feathers margined 
with paler ; upper coverts brownish-black, edged with light yellowish- 
grey ; lower part of neck partly barred as behind, yellowish-white 
and spotted with black, as is the fore part of the breast ; abdomen 
white, faintly barred with grey ; a patch of black under the tail ; 
lateral tail-coverts cream-coloured, the larger black, with broad white 
margins and tips. Female with the head and neck streaked with dark 
brown and light red, the fore neck whitish, the upper parts mottled 
with dark brown, the anterior feathers barred, the posterior margined 
with yellowish- white ; the speculum less extensive ; the lower part 
of fore neck tinged with yellowish-red, and mottled with dark brown, 
as are the sides ; the rest of the lower parts white. This species differs 
from Anas Crecca chiefly in having a white band before the wing, 
which the European bird has not, while the latter has the greater part 
of the outer webs of most of the scapulars white, there being none of 
that colour on those of our bird. 
Male, 14|, 24. Female, 18|, 22|. 
Dispersed throughout the country during autumn and spring. Ex- 
tremely abundant during winter in all the Southern States and Texas. 
Breeds sparingly along the Great Lakes, and far north. 
Green-winged Teal, Anas Crecca, Wins. Amer. Orn. v. viii. p. 101. 
Anas Crecca, Bonap. Syn. p. 386. 
American Teal, Anas Crecca, var. Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 400. 
Anas Crecca, Green-winged Teal, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 400. 
Green-winged Teal, Anas Crecca, Aud. Om. Biog. v. iii. p. 218 ; v. v. p. 616. 
394. 9. Anas discors, Linn. Blue- winged Teal. 
Plate CCCXIII. Male and Female. 
Male with the feathers of the head and hind neck slightly elongated, 
the tail rounded, acuminate, of fourteen feathers ; bill bluish-black ; 
feet dull yellow ; upper part of head black ; a semilunar white patch 
on the side of the head before the eye, margined before and behind 
with black, the rest of the head and the anterior parts of the neck pur- 
plish-blue, with purplish-red reflections ,* lower hind neck and fore 
part of back brownish-black, glossed with green, each feather with a 
curved band of pale reddish-buff, and a line or band of the same in 
the centre, the hind part of the back greenish-brown, the feathers 
edged with paler ; smaller wing-coverts light blue ; alula, primary 
coverts, and primary quills greyish-brown, edged with pale bluish ; 
outer secondaries of the same colour, those of the speculum duck- 
green, changing to blue and bronze, with a narrow line of white along 
their terminal margin ; the inner greenish-black on the outer web, 
greenish-brown on the inner, with a central line and narrow external 
margin of pale reddish-buff * ; the more elongated scapulars similar, 
but some of them margined with greenish-blue ; secondary coverts 
greenish-brown, the outer tipped with white, the inner with blue ; 
