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Title: Birdcraft : a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927
Subjects: Birds -- United States
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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de behind the eyes. Abovewaved bars of black and white. Wings dull gray. Speculumhalf purplish black and half a rich green, other wing feathershaving chestnut, white, and purplish markings. Below whitish,turning to pale brown on the breast, clouded with distinct blackspots; throat and sides waved black and white, like the back.Bill black ; feet grayish. Female with less green on the wingsand no crest; mottled brownish above. Season: Common fall migrant about the Housatonic at Stratford;September and October. Breeds: Chiefly north of the United States. Mange: North America ; migrates south to Honduras and Cuba. The Teal Ducks are two very small species, with beautifulplumage and sweet, delicate flesh, which latter quality isaccounted for by the fact that their food is mainly vegeta-ble,— the seeds of numerous grasses, sedges, and otheraquatics, small fruits and berries. They also eat grasshop-pers and many other insects, and tadpoles as well. Theyare preferably fresh-water Ducks. 258
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SWIMMING BIRDS. Ducks Samuels lias seen the Green-winged Teal associate withthe Ducks in a farmers yard or pond, and has known themto come into the barnyard with tame fowls and share thecorn thrown out for their food. Every fall I have seen themflying over the garden by twos and threes, evidently mak-ing their way from the interior toward the coast, which theyfollow very closely in their migration. Oftentimes they flyso low that the peculiar reedy whistling of their wings canbe plainly heard. Blue-winged Teal: Anas discors. Length: 15-16 inches. ^^^^te 73. Male and Female: Bill blackish. Head and neck purplish lead-colour,black crown, small white crescent before each eye. Back varie-gated dark brown and yellowish brown, and rump dark greenishbrown. Wing coverts dull sky blue. Speculum beautiful green,between white bars. Below violet-gray, spotted with black onthe breast and barred on the flanks. Feet light-coloured. Fe-male much the same, the head being dusky, but retaining thebright

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