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     “In autumn the males usually keep in separate floelt's from the 
     
     females and young. Their notes are faint and piping. and their wings 
     
     make a loud whistling during llight. . . ." (IL, 1L. and 11.). 
     
    

    
     The I‘ll'RUl’I-ZAN TEAL tI-jo’. Anus emu-«It is ot'easual oeeurrenee in North 
     
     An ‘etnliles that of Al. earn/[nans/s. hut the white 
     
     hair in front et'the win;_r is l‘.lcl{l 
     
     with a sharply detined lilaek mark on their outer webs. The female ean not 
     
    
   
   
    
     ea. The adult male r 
     
    
   
   
    
           
     
    
   
   
    
     and the timer seapiilars are ereamy hutl‘, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     he distinguished from that of .l. eiu'ull/misix. 
     
    
   
   
    
     140. Anas discors Lin/r. Ber-wixmcn TEAL. .11]. d .#(‘rown 
     
     t'useous. ehiu and sides of the base ot‘ the hill Mach: :1 hroad white hand 
     
     aeross the front of the head. its hinder margin lmrdered l>y lilaek ; rest of the 
     
     head and throat dark asliy with purplish refleetions; lireast and l.lL‘ll_\' einna- 
     
     inuu—rulbus, thielx'ly spotted with lilaek ; lraeli l'useous. the feathers with eres— 
     
     cents of oehraeemis»laitl': lesser um! met/[uh u‘z'uy—eum'lx waif/is}; blut. end 
     
     half of the greater ones white; speeulum green. Ail. <2 (Hu/ 6 [u NIH/HINT.— 
     
     (‘rown fuseous. lightly margined with grayish; sides of the head and the 
     
     neek whitish. tinely spotted with ltlilelSll, exeept on the throat: breast and 
     
    
   
   
    
     belly with less einnamon wash than in the preeeding: hat-k 1nd wings quite 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     similar to the preeeding. hut oehraeeoas liars smnetimes wanting: speeulum 
     
     darker and greater emerts with less white. 1..7 11511“; W., 7'25; Tar.7 1‘20; 
     
     1%.. law. 
     
    

    
     /.’v//«lr/r.i(.'hiefly eastern North Amerie: : hreeds from Kansas. northern 
     
     ()hiri. and New l’irunswiel; northward: winters from Virginia and the Lower 
     
     Mississippi Valley to northern South Ameriei. 
     
    

    
     Washington. eommon \V. \'.. Sept. to Apl. Long lsland. ennnnnn T. V. 
     
     in Sept“ rare T. V. in spring. 5mg Sing. eonnnon T. Y. in fall. Sept. 24 to 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ()et. 17. Cambridge. rare in spring; very eonnnon HlL least formerly; Aug. 
     
     tn (let. 
     
     [Lil/(N, six to twelve. hutl’y white or er *amy hull". 1‘8?) x 1-3 .. 
     
    
   
   
    
     This generally silent speeies flies in densely massed, small flocks, 
     
     whieh more as one bird. The white faee-mark am he. discerned at 
     
     smite distance. and, in conneetion with the bird’s small size, is a good 
     
     field-mark. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The ('INNAMoN THAI. lljl. ,l/ms eg/«mu/xlr‘ml. a speeies of western North 
     
     Ameriea, sometimes oeeurs east of the Mississippi. It has heen reeorded l'rmn 
     
     Illinois and Florida. The male has the under parts deep cinnamon; the 
     
     female elosely resemhles the same sex of our .lurm alasmrx. 
     
    
   
   
    
     142. Spatula clypeata (Ii/mm. Snorizmta. .411. a." llead and 
     
     heel" t'useoils.t_rlosset1 with lulnish green: haek and a hroken line down the 
     
     Intel; ot' the lower neek fast-oils: rest of the lower neek and breast white; 
     
     lower hreast and belly ruthus-ehestmit: upper and under tail-em‘erts dark 
     
     gretnish: lesser wing-eorerts grayish l)lllt“.}JTt':|lL‘THllt‘S l!l‘0\\'lll>‘ll gray tipped 
     
     “‘itl. white: speeulum green, .l«/. ?.~'l‘hroat hutl'y white; head and neck 
     
    
   
   
    
     streaked with bully and hlael. ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     , rest. of under parts more or le=s washed with