CIWYAMOM TEAL. I33 



own land was but an ontlying district of its true habitat. 

 The male is a handsome bird in his purplish chestnut 

 dress. 



QUERQUEDULA CYANOPTERA. 



Geographical D is f rib nt ion.— Western America, from British 

 Columbia south to Chili, Patagonia, and the Falkland Islands; 

 east to southern Texas; casual in the valley of the IMississippi, 

 and certain of the eastern States as far as Florida. 



Adult Mali'.— To^ of head, blackish chestnut. Rest of head, 

 neck, and lower parts, uniform bright chestnut. Back, rump, 

 upper tail coverts, and tail, fuscous with light edges. Scapulars, 

 chestnut barred with black, the long ones, black with a buff 

 central stripe, and pointed. Wing coverts and outer webs of 

 some scapulars, pale blue. Tips of greater wing coverts, white, 

 making a bar above the bronzy green speculum. Under tail 

 coverts, blackish. Bill, black. Legs and feet, orange; webs, 

 dusky. Iris, orange. Total length, about 17 inches; wing, 7^; 

 culmen, i^; tarsus, i^. 



Adult Female. — Similar to the female of the Blue-winged 

 Teal, but more reddish. The sides of head and throat, deep 

 buff, and the back, fuscous, the feathers edged wnth pale buff as 

 in Q. discors. The entire under parts are light brown, inclining 

 to rufous on upper breast, which is spotted with black or dusky; 

 rest of under parts indistinctly barred with chestnut on abdomen, 

 and with nebulous dusky spots on anal region and under tail 

 coverts. Wings as in female Q . discors, but with a speculum 

 faintly defined, of dark green. Bill, dusky, pale on the edges. 

 Iris, brown. Feet, yellowish drab. Total length, about 16^ 

 inches; wing, 6/^; culmen, i^^; tarsus, if^. 



Young Male.— Like female, but under parts streaked instead 

 of spotted. 



Dowjiy Young.— Top of head, hind neck, and upper parts, 

 olivaceous, darkest on the head; forehead, stripe over the eye, 

 sides of head and lower parts, yellowish buff. A narrow dark 

 browm stripe on sides of head, greenish buff spots on sides of 

 back, and yellowish spots on sides of rump. 



