. . every fat and are excellent eating, in great contrast to theircondition in the spring. This Teal rests lightly upon thewater, and the male in spring plumage is one of the hand-somest of the Duck tribe. Its food in the ponds includes much vegetable matter,seeds, grasses, pondweeds, etc. It also at times destroyssnails, tadpoles and many insects. Note. — The Cinnamon Teal {Qucrquedula cyanoptera) might be includedin a list of the birds of Massachusetts and adjacent States as a single speci-men was taken on the shore of Seneca Lake,
. . every fat and are excellent eating, in great contrast to theircondition in the spring. This Teal rests lightly upon thewater, and the male in spring plumage is one of the hand-somest of the Duck tribe. Its food in the ponds includes much vegetable matter,seeds, grasses, pondweeds, etc. It also at times destroyssnails, tadpoles and many insects. Note. — The Cinnamon Teal {Qucrquedula cyanoptera) might be includedin a list of the birds of Massachusetts and adjacent States as a single speci-men was taken on the shore of Seneca Lake, Yates County, N. Y., about themiddle of April, 1886, and is now in the collection of James Flahive, PennYan, N. Y. (Eaton); but as this is a neotropical bird, which occurs in thesouthwestern United States and west of the Rocky Mountains, is merelyaccidental in the east and is not recorded from Massachusetts, it isomitted from the present list. BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 99 SHOVELLER {Spatula clypeata).Common or local names: Spoonbill; Spoonbill Teal. /. Male. Female. Length. — 17 to 21 inches. Adult Male. — Back dark brown, tlie feathers paler on the edges; vnngcoverts light sky blue; a green patch on the dark wing preceded by awhite bar and bordered above by black; rump and upper tail covertsblack; tail white; head and upper neck dark glossy green; shoulders,lower neck, breast, a patch on each side of tail, and vent white; bellyand flanks rich chestnut; under tail coverts black; bill long, widenedat the end and dark leaden blue; iris orange or yellow; legs and feetveriTiilion or orange red. Female. — Dark and duller; plumage varied with brownish yellow anddusky; bill dull greenish above, orange below; iris yellow; legs and feetorange; head and neck mottled with two shades of brown and speckledwith dusky; under parts pale brown or buff; traces of chestnut onbelly; wing markings similar to those of male, but imperfect. Young. — Similar, but fore wing more gray th
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