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tail-feathers chocolate-brown, slightly glossed with green, their margin 
huffy ; lower parts pale reddish-orange, shaded on the breast with 
purplish-red, and thickly spotted with black, the number of spots on 
each feather varying from eight to twenty-five, those on the upper and 
hind parts of the sides running into transverse bars ; axillar feathers, 
some of the lower wing- coverts, and a patch on the side of the rump 
pure white ; lower tail-coverts brownish-black. F emale with the 
upper parts blackish-brown, the lower lighter, the feathers edged with 
greyish- white, the throat and lore whitish ; the smaller wing-coverts 
light blue, but the scapulars without that colour. 
Male, 16, 31 5 . Female, 15, 24. 
Breeds in Texas and westward. Great Lakes. Fur Countries. 
Columbia River. V ery abundant in autumn and spring in the Middle 
Atlantic Districts, as well as in the interior. Abundant also in all the 
Southern States. 
Blue-winged Teal, Anas discors, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. viii. p. 74. 
Anas discors, Bonap. Syn. p. 385. 
Anas discors. Blue-winged Teal, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 444. 
Blue-winged Teal, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 397. 
Blue-winged Teal, Anas discors, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 111. 
395. 10. Anas clypeata, Linn. Shoveller Duck. — Micoine. 
Plate CCCXXVII. Male and Female. 
Male with the bill longer than the head, depressed and much widened 
towards the end, where its breadth is doubled ; laminae of the upper 
mandible very numerous, prolonged beyond the edges and tapering to 
a point, unless at the commencement of its broadest part ; tail rounded, 
of fourteen acute feathers ; bill greyish-black ; feet vermilion ; head 
and upper part of neck deep green with purple reflections ; a longitu- 
dinal band on the hind neck and the back, greyish-brown, the feathers 
edged with paler ; rump and upper tail-coverts greenish-black ; ante- 
rior scapulars white, posterior light blue on the outer web, longitudi- 
nally banded with white and greenish-black on the inner ; smaller 
wing-coverts light blue ; alula, primary coverts and quills blackish- 
brown, their shafts white ; outer secondaries greyish-brown, eight of 
them externally of a rich duck-green, the inner greenish-black, with a 
longitudinal white streak ; secondary coverts broadly tipped with 
white ; tail-feathers greyish-brown, margined with reddish-white ; 
lower part of neck pure white ; breast and middle part of abdomen 
dull purplish- chestnut ; a large patch of white on each side of the 
rump, with a band of the same towards the tail ; lower tail-coverts 
greenish-black ; axillaries and lower wing-coverts pure white. Female 
with the bill much less dilated, and the laminae less elongated ; the 
bill dull green ; feathers of the upper parts blackish-brown, edged 
with light reddish-brown ; throat and sides of the head light reddish- 
brown, which is the prevailing colour over the lower part of the neck. 
