CINNAMON TEAL 
141. Querquedula cyanoptera. 16 in. 
Male with the whole head, neck and underparts bright 
cinnamon; wings as in the Blue-winged species. Female 
similar to the female Blue-wing, but more rusty below, 
and the throat is tinted or quite dark, while that of 
the last species is usually light. These beautiful birds 
are very abundant west of the Rocky Mountains, but 
are of only casual or accidental occurrence east of the 
Mississippi Valley and sometimes Southern Florida. 
Their favorite nesting places are in fields of tall grass 
or clover, in close proximity to marshes or ponds. 
Nest.—Compactly woven of grasses and lined with 
down; they lay from eight to as many as thirteen buffy 
white eggs, size 1.85 x 1.35; May, June. 
Range.—Breeds in Western United States and British 
Columbia. Occurs rarely in the Mississippi Valley, 
Southern Texas and Florida. 
