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tion of reeds and rushes lined in the middle with down and 

 feathers. This duck prefers the dryer marshes near creeks. He 

 has always found its nests well lined with down, and when the 

 female leaves her nest she always covers her egos with down, 

 and draws the grass, of which the outside of the nest is com- 

 posed, over the top. He does not think that she ever lays more 

 than twelve eggs, the usual number being eight to twelve. 

 These are of a clear ivory white, without even the slightest tinge 

 of green. They range from 1.80 to 1.95 inches in length, and 

 1.25 to 1.35 in breadth." (.Water Birds of North America.) 



Anas cyanoptera Vieill. 



CINNAMON TEAL. 



Popular synonyms. Eed-breasted Teal; Red Teal; lied Duck; Cerccta cafe (Mexico). 



Anas cyanoptera Vieill. Nouv. Diet, v, 1816, 104.— A. O. U. Check List, 188C. No. 



111.— Eidgw. Man. N. Am. B. 1887, 93. 

 Querquedula cyanoptera Cass. U. S.N. Astr. Exp. ii, 1855, 202 (Chili); Illustr. B. Cal. 



Tex. etc. 1855, 82, pi. 15.— Baibd, B. N. Am. 1858, 780; Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, No. 



582.— Coues, Key, 1872, 288; Check List, 1873, No. 497; 2d ed; 1882, No. 717; B. N. 



W. 1874, 567.— Hensh. Zool. Wheelers Exp. 1875, 477— Bidgw. Orn. 40th Tar. 



1^77, 623; Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, No. 610.— B. B. & R. Water B. N. Am. i, 1884,535. 

 Anas rafflesi, King, Zool. Jour, iv, 1828, 87; Suppl. pi. 29 (Straits of Magellan). 

 Pterocyanea creruleata "Licht." Gbay, Gen. B. iii, 1849, 617. 



Hab. Western America, from the Columbia Eiver to Chili, the Argentine Eepublic.and 

 Falkland Islands. Casual in Eastern North America (Louisiana, Illinois, Florida?). 



Sp. Chab. Ad 'a I It male: Head, neck, and lower parts rich purplish ehestnut, duller 

 —sometimes quite dusky— on the abdomen; pileum and crissum black; scapulars and 

 part of the back chestnut, marked with U-shaped bars of black, the middle of the back 

 more dusky; tertials Mark, with a central stripe of buff; longer scapulars similar, the 

 outermost feathers with tin- outer webs light blue; lesser wing-coverts plain light blue; 



middle coverts dusky, tipped with white; si ulum uniform green, varying from metallic 



grass-green to bronze; primaries ami primary-coverts dusky; upper tail-coverts dusky, 

 edged with pale fulvous; rectrices dusky, edged with brownish white or pale brownish 

 gray; axillar s immaculate pure white. Bill deep black; iris orange; feel orange, joints 

 and webs blackish. A Similar to thai <>f .1. discors, but larger and deeper 



colored, only the upper pari of the throat (sometimes only the chin) unstreaked. the ab- 

 domen usually distinctly spotted; chest deeply tinged with b"ght brown. Bill dusky, 

 paler beneath and along edge; Iris ;s and feel ochr»eous-drab. )'■■ 



Similar to the adult female, bul markings on the lower parts all dlstinotly longitudinal 

 break-like. Downy young: Above dark olivaceous, relieved by a longitudinal ob- 

 long oblique Bpot of deep greenish buff on each Bide the baou ■!" bind the wings), an i 

 a similar spot of clearer yellowish on each side "f the base of tie' tail; the anterior 

 fluent with the the Miles the i" is isolated by the ext 



beneath them of the olivaceous of the tail. I 'ileum and hind ueek similar to the back, 

 but darker; forehead, broad superciliary Btripe, and resl "f the head and neck, except 



desoribed, with entire lowei p yellowish buff, the Bide "f the head marked 



with a distinct narrow stripe ,,f dark brown extending from the upper base of the max- 

 illa to the eye, and thOnOe buck to the OCOiput. 



