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Title: Annual report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the State of New York
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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inds anabundance of its favorite wild oats it becomes in a short time exceedingly fat, andin this condition is much esteemed for the table. Somewhat susceptible to cold, itleaves its chosen autumn rendezvous on the approach of severe weather. Onoccasions not infrequent it associates with several of the larger snipes, as well aswith species of ducks. As a suitable place for her nest the mother Blue-wing seeks generally the reedyor grassy margin of pond or sluggish stream, where on the ground, sometimes in thewater, she builds of reeds and rushes and lines with down the home for her young.Her six to twelve eggs are plain creamy or buffy white. Some 16 inches in length and 30 in extent of wing, the male Blue-winged Tealhas the crown blackish, the rest of the head lead color, with a purplish gloss on thesides of the neck and hind-head, and with a large white crescent in front of the eye ;the back is brown, with U-shaped markings of ochraceous ; the lesser wing-coverts «% ■■■ *i± i
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FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 497 and outer webs of the longer scapulars are light grayish blue ; the exposed portionof the middle coverts is white ; the speculum is metallic green with a dullersubterminal portion and a white tip; the tertials are black, with a shaft streakof buff. The chin is blackish, the crissum deep black ; the entire remaining partof the lower surface light reddish, much spotted with black; there is a whitepatch on each side at the base of the tail, and the axillars are of the same color.The bill is black, the eye brown, the feet yellowish. The female is of somewhatsmaller size and plainer colors. Tl>e Green-winged Teal. This elegant little duck, though at one time considered identical with its near OldWorld relative, is yet quite distinct. In North America it has a wider general dis-tribution than has its cousin the Blue-winged Teal, being common over almost allthe continent. In summer it sojourns from the northern United States northward,chiefly in the i

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