34 NOKTH AMERICAN DUCKS, GEESE, AND SWANS. 



(earliest, August 18, 1889); they became common on the average Sep- 

 tember 23, though in the fall of 1887 they were already numerous 

 September 10. The average date of arrival in central Kansas is Sep- 

 tember 12, and in southern Mississippi, September 16. 



The average date at which the last was seen at Montreal was Sep- 

 tember 25; latest, September 29, 1888; the last one seen on Prince 

 Edward Island in this same year was October 8; Lewiston, Me., 

 November 7, 1901; Cape May, N. J., December 5, 1884. 



The average date for eight 3^ears when the last one was seen at 

 Ottawa, Ontario, is October 13 (latest, October 27, 1894); Chicago, 111., 

 October 18 (latest, October 22, 11M»4); southern Iowa, October 22 (latest, 

 November 4, 1885); central South Dakota, October 7; eastern Nebraska, 

 November 11; central Missouri, November 6 (latest, November 13, 1902). 

 The last one seen in 1896 at Aweme, Manitoba, was on October 30. 

 During the fall migration the blue-winged teal is fairly common on 

 the Bermudas, but it rarely occurs there in spring. 



Q,uerquedula cyanoptera ( Vieill. ). Cinnamon Teal. 



Breeding range. — The breeding range of the cinnamon teal differs 

 essentially from that of almost every other duck in the Western Hemi- 

 sphere. It consists of a large area north of the equator and a similar 

 district south of the equator, and these two homes are separated b}^ a 

 strip about 2,000 miles wide, in which the species is practically unknown. 

 In North America the breeding range extends north to southe a 

 British Columbia (Lac la Hache) and southwestern Alberta; east to 

 eastern Wyoming (Lake Como, Cheyenne), western Kansas (Fort 

 Wallace, Meade County); south to northern Lower California (La 

 Grulla, San Rafael Valley, and possibly San Jose del Cabo), northern 

 Mexico (Chihuahua City), southern New Mexico (Carlsbad), and south- 

 western Texas (Marathon, Rock Spring). 



The cinnamon teal occurs sparingly in migration as far east as Hous- 

 ton, Tex., and Omaha, Nebr. It has been noted as accidental at Oak 

 Lake, Manitoba; Big Stone Lake, Minnesota; Lake Koshkonong, 

 Wisconsin; Licking County Reservoir, Ohio; Seneca River and Seneca 

 Lake, New York; Lake Pontchartrain, Lake Cattawatchie, St. Malo, 

 and Opelousas, Louisiana; Mount Pleasant, S. C. ; Lake lamonia and 

 Key West, Florida. 



Throughout this breeding area the eggs are deposited during May 

 and June. About six months later the South American colony breeds. 

 The breeding range includes the pampas of Argentina as far north as 

 Buenos Aires, while in the Andes it extends north to central Peru 

 (Santa Luzia). Southward the species breeds as far as the Falkland 

 Islands and the Straits of Magellan. These South American breeders, 

 of course, are not the same birds which nest in North America, for 

 it is true, without exception, that no bird which breeds north of the 

 equator breeds also in the Southern Hemisphere. 



