AVES. 35 



ANSERES. 



AX AT I DAE. 



Vt. — Common migrant; (? "summer resident"). Mar.; Sept. 



Mass. — Uncommon spring and rare fall migrant; accidental in 

 winter. April 4-23; Sept. 6-Dec. 13 (Jan. 1; Feb. 1, 1892, West 

 Barnstable). 



R. I. — Uncommon migrant; rare in winter. Mar.; Sept. 2- 

 Xnv. 7 (Dec. 30). 



Conn. — Uncommon migrant and rare winter resident. Fall- 

 Mar. 



07. Querquedula discors (Linne) Stephens. 



Blue-winged teal. 



Anas discors Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 12, 1700, vol. 1, p. 20.1. "in 

 America septentrionali." Audubon, Birds- of Anier., 1843, 

 vol. 6, p. 287, pi. 393. Egg, Capen, 1886, pi. 20, fig. 12. 



Fresh and salt water; nests in marshes. 



Me. — Common migrant and in Washington Co., a rare summer' 

 resident. (Mar. 8) April-May; summer; Sept. 15-Oet. 10. 



X. II. — Uncommon migrant. May; Aug. 15-Nov. 



Vt. — Uncommon migrant; (? "summer resident"). April- 

 May; fall. 



Mass. — Rare spring and common fall migrant; probably once 

 bred. April 1 1 May 31; (June 8 and 20, Cambridge) ; Aug. 16- 

 Xov. 20. 



R. I. — Rare spring and uncommon fall migrant and rare sum- 

 mer resident (at Sakonnet). May (summer); Aug. l!7 Nov. 5. 

 Eggs, May. 



Conn. — Rare spring and uncommon fall migrant. Spring; 

 Aug.-Oet. 20. 



68. Spatula clypeata (Linne) Boie. 



Shoveler; Spoonbill. 

 Anas clypeata Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 10, 17.~>S, vol. 1, p. 121. "in 



