BIRDS—ANATINAE-NETTION CAROLINENSIS. 
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List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When col¬ 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
O 
V 
<? 
1). Gunn. 
pQin 
5121 
Devil’s river, Texas .... 
May 4, 1855 
68 
19.50 
30.00 
10.00 
eyes brown, gums yellow. 
Q76Q 
5\ IQ 
Feb. 13,1855 
6190 
ft 
Mar. 9, 1856 
184 
25.00 
46.00 
10.50 
6118 
Feb. 10,1856 
177 
28.00 
35.00 
11.25 
0773 
Q771 
Dec. —, 1854 
4464 
. 
8768 
$ 
Fort Vancouver, W. T . 
. 
Dec. 9, 1853 
Gov. Stevens .... 
27 
Dr. Cooper .... 
32.00 
27.00 
Bill and feet grayish, iris 
dark. 
977ft 
Feb. 2, 1854 
26 
18.50 
24.25 
8.00 
9767 
2 
April —, 1854 
28.00 
37.00 
10.50 
NETTION, Kaup. 
Nettion, Kaup, Entvvick. 1829. Type Anas crecca, L. (Gray.) 
Querquedula, Bonap. List, 1838. Not of Stephens, 1824. 
Ch. —Bill unusually narrow, longer than the foot ; the sides parallel ; the upper lateral angle not extending back as far as 
the lower edge. Nail very narrow, linear, and about one-fifth as wide as the bill. 
The European and American species of A T ettion (^Querquedula, of Bonaparte, Eyton, &c.) agree 
in having the head and neck chestnut, with a broad patch of green on the side of head ; the breast 
has rounded black spots ; the upper part and sides are finely waved transversely with black 
and grayish white ; the crissum is black, edged with creamy yellow ; the wing coverts are 
plain olive gray, the greater with a terminal bar of fulvous ; the speculum is green, edged exter¬ 
nally and internally with black. The diagnoses are as follows: 
A white crescent on the side, just anterior to the bend of the wing. Scapulars plain grayish 
brown. N. carolinensis- 
No crescent on the sides ; longer scapulars, creamy white internally, velvet black externally. 
Light lines on the side of head more distinct. .N. creccai. 
NETTION CAROLINENSIS, Baird. 
Green-winged Tea. 
Anas carolinensis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I,'1788, 533— Aud. Syn. 1839, 281 .—Ib Birds Amer. VI, 1843, 281 ; pi. 392. 
Reinhdt. Yid. Med. for 1853 (1854), 84 (Greenland.) 
Querquedula carolinensis, Steph. Shaw’s Gen. Zool. XII, 1824, 148. 
Anas crecca, var. Forster, Phil. Trans, LXII, 1772, 383, 419. 
Anas crecca, Wilson, Am. Orn. VIII, 1814, 101 ; pi. Ixx.— Bon. Obs. No. 2C3 — Ib. Syn. 386.— Aud. Orn. Biog. Ill, 
1853, 218: V, 616; pi. 228. 
Anas ( Bosclias ) crecca, Sw. F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 400.— Nuttall, Man. II, 1834, 400. 
“ Anas sylvatica, Vieillot.” 
American Teal, Pennant, II, 569.— Lath. Syn. Ill, ii, 554. 
98 b 
August 18, 1858. 
