SPECIES 12 . AN^S CRECCJi. 
GREEN-WINGED TEAL. 
[Plate LXX.— Fig. 4, Mz/e.] 
Lath. Sijn. iii, 554 .— -Bewick’s Br. Birds, ii,p. 338. — Peale’s 
Museum, JVo. 2832.* 
The naturalists of Europe have designated this little Duck by 
the name of the American Teal, as being a species different 
from their own. On an examination, however, of the figure 
and description of the European Teal by the ingenious and ac- 
curate Bewick, and comparing them with the present, no dif- 
ference whatever appears in the length, extent, colour, or mark- 
ings of either, but what commonly occurs among individuals 
of any other tribe; both undoubtedly belong to one and the same 
species. 
This, like the preceding, is a fresh water Duck, common in 
our markets in autumn and winter; but rarely seen here in 
summer. It frequents ponds, marshes, and the reedy shores of 
creeks and rivers. Is very abundant among the rice plantations 
of the southern states; flies in small parties, and feeds at night. 
Associates often with the Duck and Mallard, feeding on the 
seeds of various kinds of grasses and water plants, and also on 
the tender leaves of vegetables. Its flesh is accounted excel- 
lent. 
The Green winged Teal is fifteen inches in length, and twen- 
* Anas crecca, Gmei. Sijsi. i, p. 532, No. 23. — Anas Carotinensis, Id. p. 633, 
No. 103. — Ind. Orn. p. 872, No. 100; p. 874, No. 101. — Common Teal, Gen- 
Syn. Ill, p- 561, No. 88 — American Teal, Id. p. 534, No. 90 — European Teal, 
Arct Zool. II, p. 305, P. 4to. American Teal, Id. No. 504. Br. Zool. No. 290. 
— L.t petite Sarcelle, Bniss. i,p. 436, No. 32, p]. 40, fig". 1. — Buff, ix, p. 
265, pi. 17, 18. — PI. Enl. 947. Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 846. Peale’s Museum, 
2832, female. 
