. A history of the game birds, wild fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states, including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . excellent flavorwhen it has been feeding on wild rice, wild celery and variouspond weeds, but when it is driven to the seashore in winterits flesh soon becomes inferior. It breeds across the entire northern part of the continent,but
. A history of the game birds, wild fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states, including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . excellent flavorwhen it has been feeding on wild rice, wild celery and variouspond weeds, but when it is driven to the seashore in winterits flesh soon becomes inferior. It breeds across the entire northern part of the continent,but few breed now in the United States east of the principal breeding grounds now are in west central Canada. It is fond of wild oats and rice and takes seeds of variousgrasses and weeds, also chestnuts, acorns, wild grapes, berries,insects, crustaceans, worms and small snails. Audubon statesthat he never found water lizards, fish or even tadpoles instomachs of the Green-winged Teal. He regarded it, whenfed upon soaked rice or wild oats, as far superior to theCanvas-back, and considered it the most luscious food of anyAmerican Duck. Possibly it might be domesticated to ad-vantage, as it has been bred in captivity in a small way. BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 95 BLUE-WINGED TEAL {Querquedula discors).Common or local names: Blue-wing; Summer Male. Female. Length. — 15 to 16 inches. Adult Male. — Head dusky, leaden gray; chin, forehead and crown blackish;a large white black-edged crescent in front of eye; back dark brown,upper part marked with buff; fore wing when closed shows a light bluepatch, edged with white, which separates it from a greenish patch orspeculum; a narrow white posterior edge to speculum; lower parts buffy,reddish buff, cinnamon or purplish gray, spotted with black, exceptlower flanks, which are sometimes barred in curved lines; tail covertsblack, and a white patch on either side of tail; bill bluish gray, blackon ridge; legs and feet yello
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