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The blue and green-winged teal had already begun to fly; canvasbacks, mallards, widgeons, pintails, shovelers and redheads would follow soon, before and with the frost.

From Time Magazine Archive

From Susquehanna Flats to the Suisun marshes and from the Kankakee marshes to Pas a l'Outre all species of wild waterfowl had been scarce; canvasbacks, redheads, ruddy ducks, teals, gadwalls, widgeons, shovelers especially so.

From Time Magazine Archive

All sorts, lad: widgeons, teal, mallards, and some pochards.

From Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp by Fenn, George Manville

As to wild fowls, we have a few teams of ducks bred in the moors where the snipes breed; and multitudes of widgeons and teals in hard weather frequent our lakes in the forest.

From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert

POULTRY.—Capons, chickens, fowls, geese, pigeons, pullets, rabbits, teal, turkeys, widgeons, wild ducks.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)