. Birds of North Carolina . ides of head from eye to nape shining green, rest of headand neck rufous-cliestnut; breast washed with vinaceous and spotted with black; belly white;sides finely marked with wavy black and white lines; middle imder tail-coverts black, lateralones creamy buff; upper back Uke sides, lower back grayish fuscous; a white bar in front ofthe bend of the wing; wing-coverts brownisli gray, tipped with ochraceous buffy. Ad. female.—•Top of head brownish fuscous, margined with cinnamon; throat and sides of neck white,finely spotted with black; breast and sides washed with cinn
. Birds of North Carolina . ides of head from eye to nape shining green, rest of headand neck rufous-cliestnut; breast washed with vinaceous and spotted with black; belly white;sides finely marked with wavy black and white lines; middle imder tail-coverts black, lateralones creamy buff; upper back Uke sides, lower back grayish fuscous; a white bar in front ofthe bend of the wing; wing-coverts brownisli gray, tipped with ochraceous buffy. Ad. female.—•Top of head brownish fuscous, margined with cinnamon; throat and sides of neck white,finely spotted with black; breast and sides washed with cinnamon and spotted or barred withblack; belly and under tail-coverts white, sometimes spotted with black; back fuscous, thefeathers with crescent-shaped marks of ochraceous buffy, and bordered with grayish; wingsas in the male. L., ; W., ; Tar., ; B., (Chap., Birds nf E. N. A.) Range.—-Whole of North America, breeding mainly north of the United States. Range in North Carolina.—Whole State in *f Fia. 39. Gkeen-wingeij (adult male). This, one of the smallest of our clucks, is also one of the first to appear in theautumn. Coues reports them as arriving at Fort Macon in August, and furtherstates that they are among the last to leave in spring. Their haunts in winter arethe grassy ponds and river-margins, where they often associate with other are generally regarded as exceedingly rapid flyers, and yet when seen flyingin company with Mallards we have often been struck with the fact that they appar-ently were unable to outstrip their larger companions. Pearson recalls on oneoccasion seeing a wounded Green-winged Teal fall, which, on .striking the water,instantly dived. After watching a few minutes for its reappearance, he waded outto the ])oint where it had disappeared and foimd the bird about two feet beneaththe surface, clinging ■\\ith its bill to a water-plant. It was but slightly injured andmade no effort to escape when carried
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