The flesh is excellent.
[Illustration: Blue-Winged Teal.] This Teal has a brother in the West, called the Cinnamon Teal from the color of his under parts.
The Redhead Length twenty to twenty-three inches.
Male: head and upper part of neck rich chestnut with a bronze lustre.
Rest of neck, fore back, and fore breast, black.

Middle of back and sides of body finely waved with zigzag lines of black and white.

Rump and tail-coverts black.

No shining mirror on the wings, which are mostly ashy with white lining underneath.
[Illustration: Redhead] Bill very broad and flat, dull blue with a black belt at the end.

Feet grayish-blue, with dusky webs and claws.