. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. l^.Cj If^. if^L nf. 256-7. Genus QUERQUEDULA Stephens. * Subcrested ; head and upper neck chestnut, with a broad glossy green band on each side, whitish-bordered, uniting- and blackening on the nape ; under parts white, the fore breast with circular black spots ; fig. 187. Amen- upper parts and flanks closely waved with blackish aud white ; cri
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. l^.Cj If^. if^L nf. 256-7. Genus QUERQUEDULA Stephens. * Subcrested ; head and upper neck chestnut, with a broad glossy green band on each side, whitish-bordered, uniting- and blackening on the nape ; under parts white, the fore breast with circular black spots ; fig. 187. Amen- upper parts and flanks closely waved with blackish aud white ; crissum ""'^ ' ^'''°"' black, varied with white or creamy ; speculum rich green, bordered in front with bufly tips of the greater coverts, behind with white tips of the secondaries ; no blue on the wing; bill black; feet graj'. ? differs especially in the head mark- ings, but those of the wings are the same. Small; 14-15 ; wing 7A ; tail ^ ; bill 11; tarsus 1J-. {Nettion.) /,/ ^^^ English Teal. N"o white crescent in front of the wing ; long scapulars black externally, creamy internally. Europe; acci- dental on the Atlantic Coast. Coues, Proc. Phil. Acad. 1861, 238 (Labrador) ; Bd., 778 crecca. A '' \^i?^^S Green-winged Teal. A conspicuous white crescent on the side of the body lust in front of the bend of the wino;; scaij- riG. 188. Gieeu- , , . xr . , t -^t ...-,-,, „t, wmo'ed Teal, ulars plain. JN. Am., aiDundant. vViLS., vm, 101, pi. 70, f. 4; Nutt., ii, 400; Aud., vi, 281, pi. 392; Bd., 777. carolinensis. ** Wing-coverts in both sexes sky-blue, the greater white-tipped ; speculum green, white-tipped ; axillars and most under wing coverts white ; scapulars striped with tawny and blue (not in the ? ) or dark green ; fore back barred ; rump and tail dark, plain; crissum dark or black; bill black; feet not dark. {Querquedula.) Blue-ivinged Teal. Head and neck of the $ blackish-plumbeous, darkest on the crown, usually with purplish iridescence ; a white cresc
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