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passes into the gray of the back The back anteriorly and the sides are finely lined transversely with black and white. The 
wings are plain and bluish gray ; the greater coverts with a terminal bar of purplish buff, below which is a greenish purple 
speculum, margined behind by black, and tipped w.th white. Longest tertials striped with silvery and gre.nish black. 
Scapulars black, edged with silvery ; crissum and elongated tail feathers black ; the former edged with white. 
Female with only a trace of the markings of the wing; the green of the speculum brownish, with a few green spots. The 
feathers of the back are brown, with a broad U or V-shaped brownish y ellow bar on each feather anteriorly. Sometimes 
those bars appear in the shape of broad transverse lines. 
Length, 30 to 32 inches; extent, 27; wing, 11; tail, 8. 60; tarsus, 1.75; commissure, 2.36. 
Hub .—Whole of North America and Europe. 
The pintail duck is very abundant on the Columbia river, and also on the fresh water lakes 
near Puget Sound.—S. 
While feeding this duck keeps up a constant gabble. It also, on certain ponds, dives much 
for its food, bringing up weeds, roots, &c., from the bottom, and, in this respect, somewhat 
resembling the canvas-back. It is not nearly so shy as the mallard, but more so than the 
widgeon or teal. It retires to the north early in the spring; this movement is so general, that 
during the breeding season scarcely a pair is to be seen near Puget Sound. 
The pintail duck is found in immense numbers during the coldest winter weather, both in 
fresh and salt waters, though it seems to prefer the fresh when not frozen over.—C. 
NETTION CAROLINENSIS, (dm.) Baird. 
Green-winged Teal. 
Anas carolinensis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 533.— Aud. Syn. 1839, 281.— Ib. Birds Amer. VI, 1843,281 ; pi. 392.— 
Reinhdt. Vid. Med. for 1853, (1854,) 84 (Greenland.) 
Anas crecca, Wilson, Am. Orn. VIII, 1814, 101 ; pi. lxx.—B on. Obs. No. 263.— Ib Syn. 386 — Aud. Orn. Biog. Ill, 
1853,218: V, 616; pi. 228. 
Anas ( Boschas ) crecca , Sw. F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 400.— Nuttall, Man. II, 1834, 400. 
Ntllion carolinensis, Baird, Gen. Rep. Birds, 777. 
Sp. Ch.—H ead and neck all round chestnut; chin black ; forehead dusky. Region round the eye, continued along the side of 
the head as a broad stripe, rich green, passing into a bluish black patch across the nape. Under parts white, the feathers of the 
jugulum with rounded black spots. Lower portion of neck all round, sides of breast and body, long feathers of flanks and scap" 
ulars beautifully and finely banded closely with black and grayish white. Outer webs of some scapulars, and of outer secondaries 
black, the latter tipped with white; speculum broad and rich green; wing coverts plain grayish brown, the greater coverts tipped 
with buff A white crescent in front of the bend of the wing; crissum black, with a triangular patch of huffy white on each side. 
Lower portion of the green stripe on each side of the head blackish, with a dull edge of whitish below. 
Female with the wings as in the male. The under parts white, w ith hidden spots on the jugulum and lower neck; above dark 
brown, the feathers edged with gray; iris brown ; feet pale gray. 
Length, 14 to 15 inches; extent, 24 50; wing, 7.40 ; tarsus, 1.14; commissure, 1.68. 
Ilab —Whole of North America ; accidental in Europe. 
Extremely abundant in the same situations that the mallard, pintail, and widgeon, are found 
in. In winter on the northwest coast, as elsewhere, the males and females are found in separate 
flocks.—S. 
The green-winged teal arrives from the south in March, and frequents fresh ponds chiefly, 
breeding in the Territory. Some, perhaps, remain during mild winters.—C. 
QUERQUEDULA CYANOPTERA, (Vieill.) Cassin. 
South American, Cinnamon, or Red-breasted Teal. 
Anas cyanoptera, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. V, 1816, 104. 
Querquedula cyanoptera, Cassin, lllust. I, in, 1855, 84; pi. xv.— Baird, Gen. Rep. Birds, 7 80. 
Anas rafflesii, King, Zool. Jour. IV, 1828, 87. 
Plerocyanea rajjlesii, Baird, Zool. Stansbury’s Exp. Salt Lake, 1852, 322. 
