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GREEN-WINGED TEAL. 
AJVAS CRECCA. 
[Plate LXX.— Fig. 4, Male.l 
Gmel. Syst, 1, p. 532, No. 33 ; A. Carolinensis, Id. p. 533, No. 103. — Ind. Orn.p. 872, No, 
100; p. 874, No. 101. Common Teal^ Gen. Syn. 3, 551, No. 88 ; American Tealyld. p. 
554, No. 90. — European Teal^ Arct. Zool. voi. 2, p. 305, P. 4to. ; American Teal, Id. No. 
504. Br. Zool. No. 290. — Bewick, 338. — Lapetite Sarcelle^ Briss. VI, 436, No. 
32, /)/. 40,7?^. 1. — Buff. IX, j&. 265 y pi, 17, 18. PL Enl. 947. — Canard Sarcelle d^hiver, 
Temm. Man. d^Orn. p. 846. — Willughby, p, 377, ^ VI. — Peale’s Museum^ No. 
2832 ; femalcy 2833. 
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 what- 
ever appears in the length, extent, color, or markings 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 sum- 
mer. 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. Asso- 
ciates often with the Mallard, feeding on the seeds of various kinds 
of grasses and water plants, and also on the tender leaves of vege- 
tables. Its flesh is accounted excellent. 
The Green-winged Teal is fifteen inches in length, and twenty- 
four inches in extent ; bill black ; irides pale brown ; .lower eye lid 
whitish ; head glossy reddish chestnut ; from the eye backwards to 
the nape runs a broad band of rich silky green, edged above and 
