"With its metallic green head and neck, white collar, chesnut breast and gleaming yellow bill, he sets the example for sartorial splendor ... The female wears more subdued plumage in shades of mottled camouflage brown; her orangebill is marked with black. Both share the iridescent violet-blue wing-patch, the speculum, bordered on both sides by white ... The mallard migrates and winters throughout Texas. It is most abundant in the Panhandle, more scattered and local elsewhere."