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ward through the Northwest Territories; it is also com- 
mon in the Fraser Valley and the interior of British Colum- 
bia. 
Teal.—The green-winged teal is common from Manitoba 
to British Columbia, and breeds throughout that region 
and northward to the Arctic. The blue-winged teal breeds 
sparingly in eastern Canada; its chief breeding-range is 
from Manitoba to the Rocky Mountains and northward. 
It is a summer resident in the lower Fraser Valley, though 
uncommon in the rest of British Columbia. The teal are 
the smallest of our ducks, and, being swift fliers, are good 
sporting ducks. 
Shoveller or Spoonbill—This handsome bird is distin- 
guished by its peculiar spoonlike bill, which enables it to 
sift the mud of the ponds which it frequents. As a migrant 
it is fairly common in Ontario and Quebec, but rarer in the 
Maritime Provinces. It is one of the commonest ducks of 
the prairies as far as the Rocky Mountains, where it finds the 
most suitable feeding-grounds. It is a common summer 
resident in British Columbia. 
Pintail.—Few of our native ducks excel this species in 
beauty of colouration, and certainly not in grace of out- 
line. While it breeds in some of the Ontario marshes and 
eastward to Nova Scotia in small numbers, the chief breed- 
_ing-places of the pintail are in the Northwest Territories 
northward to the Arctic coast. 
Wood Duck.—Of all our wild ducks this species is by far’ 
the most gorgeous in its colouring; in fact, it is not excelled 
in beauty of colouration by any other wild duck in the 
world. Formerly it was abundant throughout the wooded 
regions of Canada, but so reduced have its numbers become 
that it has now been considered necessary to protect it by a 
permanent close season. It is still found in small numbers 
from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, but it is rare in the 
region west of Manitoba to the Coast Mountains of British 
