30 NORTH AMERICAN DUCKS, GEESE, AND SWANS. 



Tall migration. — The month of September, especially the latter half, 

 sees the arrival of the lirst baldpates over most of the district between 

 the breeding grounds and Cuba and Louisiana;, but these are onh' the 

 advance scouts; the main body appears in the northern United States 

 early in October, and reaches the middle Atlantic States about the 

 middle of that month. Dates of arrival are: Middletown, R. I., Sep- 

 tember 20, 1889; East Hartford, Conn., September 29, 1888; Beaver, 

 Pa., August 30, 1890. Stragglers have been seen in Massachusetts 

 and in northern Pennsylvania as late as the first week in December, 

 but most leave at least a month earlier. The average date at which 

 the last were seen at Ottawa, Ontario, is October 2T, latest November 

 6, 1890; at Keokuk, Iowa, November 13, latest November 18, 1892. 

 The last was seen at jNlontreal September 20, 1897; Edmonton, 

 Alberta, November 6, 1896; Kowak River, Alaska, September 20, 

 1898; St. Michael, Alaska, October 1. 



Nettion crecca (Linn.)- European Teal. 



This is a widely distributed Old World species, accidental in the 

 Western Hemisphere. It has been taken in Greenland, Labrador, 

 Nova Scotia, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Long Island, near 

 Washington, D. C. , California, and Alaska. The dates of capture 

 range through every month of the year, except January, August, and 

 October; those for the United States from November to April. 



Nettion carolinense (Gmel.). Green-winged Teal. 



Breeding range. — A few proljabl}- have, bred in the mountains of 

 north central Pennsj'lvania (Lycoming County), and it has been 

 reported as nesting near Buffalo, N. Y. The regular breeding range 

 extends from New Brunswick, through northeastern Quebec and New- 

 foundland, to Ungava Bay, Labrador, latitude 58 . It is a common 

 migrant in Ontario, and hence undoubtedlv breeds in the northern 

 part. It has been recorded as a rare breeder in southern Ontario 

 (Toronto, Point aux Pins, Oshawa, Gravenhurst). The southern 

 boundary of the breeding range to the westward is found in Illinois 

 (Rockford, Lacon, Fernwood), in Michigan (Neebish Island), Wiscon- 

 sin (Lake Koshkonong, formerly), Minnesota (Faribault, Heron Lake), 

 Nebraska (Dewey Lake, Badger, Valentine), Colorado (Beloit, San 

 Luis Valley), New Mexico (San ]\Iiguel Countv), Utah (Salt Lake), 

 Nevada (Washoe Lake), Oregon (Fort Klamath). The range extends 

 north to the edge of the Barren Grounds from near Fort Churchill, 

 Hudson Bay, to Fort Anderson, to Kotzebue Sound, and nearly to 

 Point Barrow. It breeds throughout the Aleutian Chain to the Near 

 Islands. It is rare as a breeder everywhere in the United States east 

 of the Rocky Mountains, and the main breeding grounds are in west 

 central Canada from Manitoba to Lake Athabasca. It has wandered 



