. A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada . ce called aFigure 4, they are taken alive in box-traps. In the monthof April they pass through Pennsylvania on their way to theNorth, but make little stay at that season; they are seen alsoin the spring in the State of Missouri, and Spread themselveswidely to breed throughout a great extent of the western andnorthern wilderness. Though often contiguous to the sea, these birds have no pre-dilection for visiting the shores, feeding chiefly on vegetablesand insects, and particularly on the wild rice which abounds inthe Northweste
. A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada . ce called aFigure 4, they are taken alive in box-traps. In the monthof April they pass through Pennsylvania on their way to theNorth, but make little stay at that season; they are seen alsoin the spring in the State of Missouri, and Spread themselveswidely to breed throughout a great extent of the western andnorthern wilderness. Though often contiguous to the sea, these birds have no pre-dilection for visiting the shores, feeding chiefly on vegetablesand insects, and particularly on the wild rice which abounds inthe Northwestern lakes and sluggish streams. They are muchesteemed as game, and commonly become very fat. Theirnote, which is somewhat like a diminutive quack, is utteredlow and rather rapidly. The Blue-winged Teal is uncommon in New England and theProvinces, and we must go to the region bordering the Mississippivalley to find it in abundance. It breeds from the northern tier ofStates northward, and winters in the Southern States, the WestIndies, and Central America. -^ ••. GREEN-WINGED carolinensis. Char. Upper parts and flanks dark gray and white in fine wavedlines; head and neck chestnut, with a broad green band on the sides;wing-patch rich green and black, bordered with buff and white; a whitecrescentic patch in front of the shoulder ; under parts white, the breastspotted ; bill black; legs leaden gray. The female is duller in generalcolor, and has fewer and less conspicuous markings. Length about 14inches. Nest. Amid a tuft of grass, —made of grass and weed-stems and linedwith feathers. Eggs. 6-12 ; pale buff or ivory white, tinged with green when fresh; X The Green-winged Teal, as a species, is common to thenorthern and temperate parts of both continents. The Amer-ican bird appears to be a permanent and distinct is, according to Dr. Richardson, however, in the Hud-son Bay Museum a specimen from the fur countries agreeing VOL. II. — 21 322 SWIMM
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