. The history of birds : their varieties and oddities, comprising graphic descriptions of nearly all known species of birds, with fishes and insects, the world over, and illustrating their varied habits, modes of life, and distinguishing peculiarities by means of delightful anecdotes and spirited engravings . med, and have bred in this condition. THE AMERICAN TEAL. The Green-Winged Teal, as a species, is common to the northernand temperateparts of both con-tinents. TheAmerican birdappears to be apermanent anddistinct is, accord-ing to Dr. Rich-ardson, however,in the HudsonsBay Mu
. The history of birds : their varieties and oddities, comprising graphic descriptions of nearly all known species of birds, with fishes and insects, the world over, and illustrating their varied habits, modes of life, and distinguishing peculiarities by means of delightful anecdotes and spirited engravings . med, and have bred in this condition. THE AMERICAN TEAL. The Green-Winged Teal, as a species, is common to the northernand temperateparts of both con-tinents. TheAmerican birdappears to be apermanent anddistinct is, accord-ing to Dr. Rich-ardson, however,in the HudsonsBay Museum, aspecimen fromthe fur countriesagreeing in allrespects with theEuropean variety isabundant, to theextremity of the continent, both m the woody and barren districts ofthe remote fiir countries of Hudsons Bay. It is also plentiful aboutSevern river, in the woods and plains near fresh waters, where itbreeds, the young being about six or seven at a hutch. It feedsmuch upon fresh-water insects, seeds, and aquatic plants, and when&t is delicate food. In the autumn and winter it is very commonthroughout the waters of the United States, both in the interior andcontiguous to the sea coast. In the course of the winter they retire^ far south as Jamaica and are probably common also along the. AMERICAN TEAL. 374 THE MUSK, OR MUSCOVY DUCK. coasts of the Mexican Gulf. It frequents ponds, marshes, the reedyshores of creeks and rivers, and in winter is very abundant in th«rice plantations of the South. They usually fly in small parties,feeding mostly by night; associating with the Mallard, and are com-monly decoyed by its call. Tha Teal is found in the north of Europe as far as Greenland andIceland, and it also inhabits the borders of the Caspian to the France and England it is said to breed. They are commonly seenon the pools, in close companies of ten or twelve together, frequent-ing the rivers and unfrozen springs in winter, where they subsist onaquatic plants. Th
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