. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 122 BIRDS OF AMERICA GREEN-WINGED TEAL Nettion carolinense ((Jiiwlin) A. O. U. Number 139 See Color I'late ij Other Names.â Green-wing; Red-headed Teal; Winter Teal: Mud Teal. General Description.â Length, 14 inches. Males are gray and red above, and whitish and red below ; females are brown above, and whitish below. Description.â Adult Male; Head, slightly crested. Head and upper neck, rich chestnut ivith a glossy green patch behind eye, blackening on lower border and on back where it meets its fellow, bordered below by a whitish streak; upper part
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 122 BIRDS OF AMERICA GREEN-WINGED TEAL Nettion carolinense ((Jiiwlin) A. O. U. Number 139 See Color I'late ij Other Names.â Green-wing; Red-headed Teal; Winter Teal: Mud Teal. General Description.â Length, 14 inches. Males are gray and red above, and whitish and red below ; females are brown above, and whitish below. Description.â Adult Male; Head, slightly crested. Head and upper neck, rich chestnut ivith a glossy green patch behind eye, blackening on lower border and on back where it meets its fellow, bordered below by a whitish streak; upper parts, grayish, very finely waved with dusky; speculum, 'c'elvet-black on outer half, rich glossy green on inner; primaries and wing-coverts, grayish; greater coverts with chestnut tips margining the speculum in front; breast, warm brownish; rest of lower parts, whitish speckled with round dusky spots on breast; sides, grayish, finely waved with dusky; a white crescent in front of wing; bill, dusky lead color, darker below; feet, bluish-gray; iris, brown. Adult Female: Head (no crest) and neck, light warm brown, whitening on throat and darkening on crown. Teals might be called the bantams of the duck tribe, as regards size. Their swiftness of flight is in inverse ratio to mere bigness, and probably there is nothing more rapid that ilies. The celerity with which a Teal can vault into the air ' i<. â w* Photo by H. \; '^^W. Couriesy of Outing Pub. Co. NEST OF GREEN-WINGED TEAL when alarmed is astonishing. In all its move- ments it evinces a real grace, a peculiar charm. From the culinary standpoint, surely there is nothing more luscious in the realm of water- fowl, no, not even the vaunted Canvas-back. The Green-wing and the Blue-wing are the spotted with dark brown; upper parts, dark brown, each feather with distinct tawny edgings; sides of body, the same; rest of lower parts, whitish; wing as in male but speculum duller. Young of the Year: Resemble adult female. Nest and Egg
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