10; RIVER Ducks. 
     
    
   
   
    
     to the nape, glossy green, more or less sprinkled with black; lores. cheeks, 
     
     and throat buti’y. tinely barred with black; upper breast and sides vinaeeous, 
     
     the latter more or less tinely barred with wary blaek lines; lower breast and 
     
     belly white; baek grayish brown, more or less tinged with \‘inaeeous and 
     
     finely barred with blaek. .vl«/. 9.—~llead and threat white or pale. creamy 
     
     butf, finely streaked and barred with black, darker abm’e: upper breast and 
     
     sides pale \‘inaeeous washed with grayish: lower breast and belly white; baek 
     
     grayish brown, the feathers with small ereamy butt‘ bars: tertials t'useous7 bor- 
     
     dered with zc/u'ti'sh or creamy butf: greater \\'ing»en\'el‘ts brownish gray, their 
     
     outer webs mostly or entirely u'lzz'tr‘. their ends black, sometimes tipped with 
     
     white. L.,1‘.l~00; \V., 10‘5“; Tan, 1'50; ’».. 1’40. 
     
    

    
     Rang/awNorth America: breeds in the interior regularly from Minnesota. 
     
     northward. and Casually as far south as Texas; not known to breed on the 
     
     rs lrom open water south to Central America and north~ 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Atlantic coast; winte 
     
    

    
     ern South America. 
     
     \Vashington. common W. L. Get, to Apl. Lon;r Island. nneommon T, V” 
     
    

    
     Oct. to Apl. Sing Sing. common T. V.. Melt. ll to Apl. 1:: Oct. 4 to Oct. 25. 
     
     Jig/([3. seven to twelve. bully white, 2‘05 x 1'50. - 
     
    
   
   
    
     Colonel N. S. Goss writes that, as a rule, Widgeons are “not shy, 
     
     and their note, a sort of 10/1810, 'll'llell’, when; uttered while feeding and 
     
     swimming. enables the hunter to lo 'ate them in the thickest growth 
     
     of water plants: and when in the air the, whistling noise made by their 
     
     wings heralds their approach." The; are fond of wild celery, which 
     
     they procure by rubbing the (‘an 'asbaek and other (livingr Ducks. 
     
     “snatching their catch from their bills the moment their h ‘ads appear 
     
     above the water." 
     
    
   
   
    
     139. Anas carolinensis (Duel. GREEN—\vmuiin TEAL. Jr]. 5. 
     
     ‘('hin hlaek, sides of the head t'rom the eye to the nape shiningr green, rest 
     
     of the head and neck rutbus-ehestnut: breast washed with \‘inaeenus and 
     
     spotted With black; belly white: sides finely marked with wavy hlaek and 
     
     white lines; middle under tail»eoverts blaek, lateral ones amy buti‘: upper 
     
     back like the sides, lower baek grayish t'useons: u H‘ll/YI' lmr in t'ront ot' the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     [ll]. Q .—Top ot'the head brownish tinseons, margined with einualnon: throat 
     
     and sides of the neck white, finely spotted with llltlt " 
     
     washed with cinnamon and spotted or barred with blaek; belly and under 
     
    
   
   
    
     bend of the whim wing—coverts brownish gray. tipped with oehraeeous bull'r. 
     
    
   
   
    
     breast and sides 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     tailreorerts white, smnetimes spotted with blaek: baek t'useous. the l'-athers 
     
     with (‘t‘est‘entssllilllt‘tl marks ot'oehraeenns butl'y. and bordered with grayish ; 
     
     \VHIL’S as in the male. l... 147:0: \\'.. 7'0“; 'l'ar.. 1'10: 1%.. l'flfi. 
     
    

    
     [flown-North Ameriea: breeds from Minnesota and New Brunswiek 
     
     northward: winters from Kansas and Virginia southward to the West indies 
     
     and t'entral Ameriea. 
     
    

    
     Washington. common W. V.. Sept. to Apl. lain}; Island. uneonuuon 'l‘. V. 
     
     and W. V.. Oct. to Apl. Sin;r Sing. eommon T. V.. .\pl.; Sept. 11 ti Oet. 25. 
     
     t‘znnbridge. uncommon 'l‘. V.. .\pl.: Sept. to Nov. 
     
    

    
     13‘9“": six to twelve. butl'y white or creamy lillir. 1'80 x 1'25.