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GREEN- WINGED TEAL. 
tipt with reddish cream ; the first five secondaries deep velvety 
black, the next five resplendent green, forming the speculum 
or beauty spot, which is bounded above by pale buff, below by 
white, and on each side by deep black ; primaries, ashy brown ; 
tail, pointed, eighteen feathers, dark drab ; legs and feet, flesh- 
coloured. In some a few circular touches of white appear on 
the breast near the shoulder of the wing. The windpipe has a 
small bony labyrinth where it separates into the lungs ; the 
intestines measure three feet six inches, and are very small 
and tender. 
The female wants the chestnut bay on the head, and the 
band of rich green through the eye, these parts being dusky 
white speckled with black ; the breast is grey brown, thickly 
sprinkled with blackish, or dark brown ; the back dark brown, 
waved with broad lines of brownish white ; wing nearly the 
same as in the male. , 
This species is said to breed at Hudson’s Bay, and to have 
from five to seven young at a time.*' In France it remains 
throughout the year, and builds in April, among the rushes on 
the edges of the ponds. It has been lately discovered to breed 
also in England, in the mosses about Carlisle.f It is not known 
to breed in any part of the United States. The teal is found 
in the north of Europe as far as Iceland, and also inhabits the 
Caspian Sea to the south. Extends likewise to China, having- 
been recognised by Latham among some fine drawings of the 
birds of that country. 
* Latham. -f- Bewick. 
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