. History of Vermont, natural, civil, and statistical, in three parts, with a new map of the state, and 200 engravings . part of the neck dull yellow-ish-white, each feather marked down thecentre with a line of blackish-brown ; in-ferior part of the neck and whole lowerparts dusky, the feathers edged more orless broadly with brownish white ; upperparts the same, but deeper; speculumblue, with green and amethyst-red reflec-tions; wings and tail dusky; the tailfeathers sharp pointed ; bill greenish ash ;leo-sand feet dusky yellow ; female brown-er? Length 24, spread 38.—-Mitl. History.—This Duck
. History of Vermont, natural, civil, and statistical, in three parts, with a new map of the state, and 200 engravings . part of the neck dull yellow-ish-white, each feather marked down thecentre with a line of blackish-brown ; in-ferior part of the neck and whole lowerparts dusky, the feathers edged more orless broadly with brownish white ; upperparts the same, but deeper; speculumblue, with green and amethyst-red reflec-tions; wings and tail dusky; the tailfeathers sharp pointed ; bill greenish ash ;leo-sand feet dusky yellow ; female brown-er? Length 24, spread 38.—-Mitl. History.—This Duck is said to befound only in North America. It is metwith throughout the United States andBritish provinces, from Florida to Labra-dor and is generally but improperlycalled the Black Duck. It is found alikealon<r the sea coast, in salt marshes, andalon^ the fresh water rivers and breed in marshes, making theirnests of weeds, and laying from 6 to 12cirtrs, which are of a dull ivory white andabout the size of those of the commonduck. Their voice, or quack, is also sim-ilar to that of the common THE BLUE-WINGED discors.——Upper surface of thehead and under tail coverts brownishblack ; a white crescent from the fore-head to the chin bordered with black ;sides of the head and neck purple ; baseof the neck above, back, tertiaries and tailcoverts brownish-green ; fore parts mark-ed with semi-ovate pale brown bars; lea-ser wing coverts pure pale blue ; specu-lum dark green; prim , their coverts and the tail liver brown ; sides of therump and under wing coverts white ; un-der plumage reddish-orange,glossed withchestnut on the breast, with blackishspots; bill bluish-black; feet brownish, without the white be-fore the eye and on the rump, and thepurple tint on the head and neck. Youngwithout the green speculum ; in other re-spects like the female. Length 18 —The Blue-Winged Teal in-habits, according
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