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GREEN- WINGED TEAL. 
back, dark glossy bronze brown, with some gold and greenish 
reflections. Speculum of the wings nearly the same as in the 
male, but the fine penciling of the sides, and the long hair- 
like tail-coverts, are wanting ; the tail is also shorter. 
GREEN-WINGED TEAL ANAS CRECCA. 
Plate LXX. Fig. 4. 
Lath. Syn. iii. p. 554. — Bewick's JBr. Birds, v. ii. p. 338. — Beale's Museum, 
No. 2832. 
BOSCHAS CAROLI NENSIS.— JAViDiNE.* 
Anas Carolinensis, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. p. 874. — Anas niigratoria, least green- 
winged teal, Bart, Trav, p. 293. — Anas crecca, varietas, Forst. Phil. Trans. 
Ixii. p. 347. — American teal, Lath. Gen. Hist. x. p. 371. — Anas crecca, Bonap. 
Synop. p. 386. — Anas (boscEas) crecca, var. North. 7.ool. ii. p. 443. 
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 
accurate Bewick, and comparing them with the present, no 
difference whatever appears in the length, extent, colour, or 
markings of either, but what commonly occurs among indivi- 
duals of any other tribe ; both undoubtedly belong to one and 
the same species. 
* Most writers on the ornithology of America, have considered this bird as a 
Variety of the European teal. All, however, agree in their regarding the differ- 
ence in the variety, and of its being constant in the northern specimens. Thus, 
Dr Latham mentions the white pectoral band. Forster says, “ this is a variety 
of the teal, for it wants the two white streaks above and below the eyes ; the 
lower one indeed is faintly expressed in the male, which has also a lunated bar 
of white over each shoulder; this is not to be found in the European teal.” 
Pennant, “ that it wants the white line which the European one has above 
each eye, having only one below ; has over each shoulder a lunated bar.” — 
The authors of the Northern Zoology observe, “ the only permanent difference 
that we have been able to detect, after comparing a number of specimens, is, 
that the English teal has a white longitudinal band on the scapulars, which the 
