. Hunting and fishing in Florida : including a key to the water birds known to occur in the State . Subgenus QUERQUEDULA Stephens. ANAS DISCORS Linn. Blue=winged Teal. Adult male: Head gray with purplish gloss, darkest ontop : a white patch resembring a crescent in front of the eye; wing coverts and some of the scapulars pale grayishblue forming a grayish blue patch on the wing ; speculumrich green ; under parts purplish gray spotted on the breastwith black ; the flanks are narrowly barred with black. Thebill is black, the feet yellow. Adult female: Showing a blue patch on wing, whichdistingui
. Hunting and fishing in Florida : including a key to the water birds known to occur in the State . Subgenus QUERQUEDULA Stephens. ANAS DISCORS Linn. Blue=winged Teal. Adult male: Head gray with purplish gloss, darkest ontop : a white patch resembring a crescent in front of the eye; wing coverts and some of the scapulars pale grayishblue forming a grayish blue patch on the wing ; speculumrich green ; under parts purplish gray spotted on the breastwith black ; the flanks are narrowly barred with black. Thebill is black, the feet yellow. Adult female: Showing a blue patch on wing, whichdistinguishes it from other Teals, except the female of Anastyanoptera, but the color of the head will always distinguishit from that species. Length, 16 ; Wing, : Tarsus, ; Bill, Ranges throughout Eastern North AmericaiM-eeding chiefly north of the United winter it is common in Florida and itsrange extends to the West Indies and North-ern South America. The eggs are pale buffusually from eight to twelve in number. Themale whistles and the female quacks. (Female.). ANAS CYANOPTERA Teal. Adult male: Head, neck, and upper parts chest= nut brown, the crown somewhat darker than the sidesof the head ; under parts brownish showing dusky onthe belly ; rump olive brown, feathers becoming lig:hteron the edges; wing coverts blue gray, similar to theBlue-winged Teal; speculum green ; the general colora-tion of the wing being similar to the Blue-winged Teal,l)ut the coloration of the body is so different that itshould never be confounded with that species. Adult female: Resembles the female of the Blue-winged Teal although larger: the under parts show (Male.) 222 KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. a trace of the chestnut marking of the male and the upper tliroat and chin are more speckled,otherwise apparently C|uite similar to Anas , i6; Wing, : Bill. ; Tarsus, This is a species which is usually confined to Western North America,
Size: 1732px × 1442px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade, booksubjectbirds, booksubjecthunting
