LAMELLIROSTRES— ANATIDAE— QUEKQUEDULA OYANOPTERA. 477 



Pterocyanea (liscors, WooDH., Sitgreave's Exp. Zuni & Col. Riv., 1854, 103. — Newb., 

 P. R. R. Re4)., vi, 1857 (California; Oregon ; perhaps refers to Q. cyanoptera). 



Like the preceding species, tliis teal probably breeds in many localities 

 of Utah, and to the southward, as it certainly does in Colorado. It was 

 present at the same time and place as the preceding, and in about equal 

 numbers. In the fall, immense numbers of this, like the Green-winged Teal, 

 pass through the Central and Southern Regions on their way still farther 

 south. They are by no means exclusively confined to the neighborhood of 

 the lakes and large bodies of water ; but wherever they can find suflficient 

 water to float themselves, there they settle down, and are as well contented 

 in the narrow brush lined streams, or some little pool of water a few feet in 

 diameter, as their bigger brethren of the lakes. Dr. H. C. Yarrow speaks of 

 finding immense flocks of these teal in all the bodies of water of Eastern 

 Nevada in August, and here they form no inconsiderable share of the food 

 of the Indians, who have little difficulty in obtaining them by means of their 

 bows and arrows. 



QUERQUEDULA CYANOPTERA (VieilL). 

 Red-breasted Teal. 



Anas cyanoptera, Vieill., Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., v, 1816, 104. 



Querquedula cyanoptera, CASS., D. S. N. Astr. Exp., ii, 1855, 202 ; 111., 1855, 82, pi. 15 

 (Utah; California; Louisiana; Chili). — Bd., Birds N. A., 1858, 780 (Rocky 

 Mountains to Pacific) Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 26. — Ken- 

 NERLY, p. R. R. Rep., Whipple's Route, x, 1859, 35 (Arizona and California).— 

 Heerm., p. R. R. Reix, x, ii, 1859, 69.— Xantus, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1859, 193 (Fort Tejon, Cal.).— Henry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 109 

 (New Mexico). — Coop. «& Suckl., P. R. R. Rep., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 254. — Coues, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 98 (San Francisco, Colorado River).— M, 

 ih., 1868, 84.— Stev., U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1870, 466 (Wyoming).— CouES, 

 Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 288.— Aiken, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1872, 210 

 (Colorado).— Allen, Bui. Mas. Couip. Zool., 1872, 183. — Merriam, TJ. S. 

 Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 703.— Yarrow & Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1872, 

 Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 31. — Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's 

 Exped., 1874, 69, 94.— Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 567. 



