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The average date at which the last was seen at Mont- 

 real was Sept. 25 ; latest, Sept. 29, 1888 ; the last one 

 seen on Prince Edward Island in this same year was 

 Oct. 8; Lewiston, Me., Nov. 7, 1901; Cape May, N. J., 

 Dec. 5, 1884. 



The average date for eight years when the last one 

 was seen at Ottawa, Ont., is Oct. 13 (latest, Oct. 27, 

 1894); Chicago, 111., Oct. 18 (latest, Oct. 22, 1904); 

 southern Iowa, Oct. 22 (latest, Nov. 4, 1885 ; central 

 South Dakota, Oct. 7; eastern Nebraska, Nov. 11; cen- 

 tral Missouri, Nov. 6 (latest, Nov. 13, 1902). The last 

 one seen in 1896 at Aweme, Man., was on Oct. 30. Dur- 

 ing the fall migration the blue-winged teal is fairly com- 

 mon on the Bermudas, but it rarely occurs there in 

 spring. 



Querquedula cyanoptera (Vieill.) Cinnamon Teal. 



Breeding Range. — The breeding range of the cinnamon 

 teal differs essentially from that of almost every other 

 duck in the Western Hemisphere. It consists of a large 

 area north of the equator and a similar district south of 

 the equator, and these two homes are separated by a 

 strip about 2,000 miles wide, in which the species is prac- 

 tically unknown. In North America the breeding range 

 extends north to southern British Columbia (Lac la 

 Hache) and southwestern Alberta ; east to eastern Wy- 

 oming (Lake Como, Cheyenne), western Kansas (Fort 

 Wallace, Meade County) ; south to northern Lower Cali- 

 fornia (La Grulla, San Rafael Valley, and possibly San 

 Jose del Cabo), northern Mexico (Chihuahua City), 

 southern New Mexico (Carlsbad), and southwestern 

 Texas (Marathon, Rock Spring.) 



