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for the green-winged teal is still one of the common ducks 
in Alabama. 
17. QUERQUEDULA DISCORS (Linneus). 
BLUE-WINGED TEAL. 
The first mention made of this species by Dr. Avery 
was incidental, in writing of the pintail, and the quota- 
tion will be found under that species. He states in this 
article that the blue-winged teal appears at Greensboro 
about March Ist, but in his original notes for 1886 there 
is a record of the bird on Sept. 10th, and in 1891 this 
note appears under date of Sept. 14th: “A flock of blue- 
winged teal were reported at Cocke’s Pond, of which Mr. 
Cocke bagged two.” “Once common, now seldom seen. 
Winter resident.” (1890d). 
No. 1082. Female. Greensboro. Oct. 9, 18938. W C. Avery. 
18. SPATULA CLYPEATA (Linnezus). 
SHOVELLER. 
For first mention of this species see note under Dafila 
acuta. “Seen in the spring, never in large numbers, but 
in bunches of six to eight at the highest.” (1890d). 
19. DAFILA ACUTA (Linnezus). 
PINTAIL. 
“March 2nd I saw and obtained a specimen of Dafila 
acuta (Pintail.) Have heard of others being shot. This 
duck appears here about the first of March, with the 
blue-wing teal, the bald pate and the blue-wing shovel- 
ler.” (1884.)‘“ Once abundant during spring and autumn 
migrations; but, like all ducks, growing yearly scarcer 
in this country.” (1890d). 
20. AIX SPONSA (Linneus). 
_ Woop Duck. , 
“Summer Duck.’ 
“Once abundant, now not at all common. Twenty-five 
years ago, in September, I saw one morning at least 
three hundred of these ducks come at dawn, to feed in 
a pond, at Millwood, on the Warrior River, ten miles 
