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tion of reeds and rushes lined in the middle with down and 

 feathers. This duck prefers the dryer marshes near creeks. He 

 has always found its nests well lined with down, and when the 

 fenuile leaves her nest she always covers her egos with down, 

 and draws the grass, of which the outside of the nest is com- 

 posed, over the top. He does not think that she ever lays more 

 than twelve eggs, the usual number being eight to twelve. 

 These are of a clear ivory white, without even the slightest tinge 

 of green. Tlioy lange from 1.80 to 1.95 inches in length, and 

 1.25 to 1.35 in breadth." ( Water Birds of North America.) 



Anas cyanoptera Vieill. 



CINNAMON TEAL. 



Popular synonyms. Red-breasted Teal; Ked Teal; Red Duck; Cercota cafe (Mexico). 

 Anas cyanniilera ViElLL. Nouv. Diet. v. 181fi. 104.— A. O. U. Check List, 18S6, No. 



in.— KiDGW. Man. N. Am. B. 1887. 93. 

 Querguedula cuanoplera Cas8. U. 8. N. Astr. Exp. ii. 1855, 202(Chlli); lUustr. B. Cal. 



Tex. etc. 185.5, 82, pi. 15.— Baibd. B. N. Am. 1858, 780; Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, No. 



582.— CouES, Key, 1S72, 288; Check List, 1873, No. 497; 2d ed. 1882. No. 717; B. N. 



W. 1874, 567.— HeNsh. Zool. Wheeler's Exp. 1875, 477.— RiDOW. Orn. 40th Par. 



1877, 623; Nom. N. Am. B. 1881. No. filO.-B. B. & R. Water B. N. Am. i, 18iM, S.'B. 

 Anas rafflesi Kino. Zoijl. Jour. iv. 1828, 87; Suppl. pi. 2!.> (Straits of Magclan). 

 Pteroci/anea cmruleata "LicHT." Gbax, Gen. B. iii, 1849, 017. 



Had. Western America, from the Columbia River to Chili, the Argentine Republic, and 

 Falkland Islands. Ca.'fual in Eastern North America (Lonisiana, Illinois, Florida?). 



8p. Chab. Adult male: Head, neck, and lower parts rich purplish chestnut, duller 

 —sometimes Quite du.sky— on the abdomen; pilcum and crissum black; scapulars and 

 part of the back chestnut, marked with U-shuped bars of black, the middle of the back 

 more dusky; tertials black, with a central stripe of buff; longer scapulars similar, the 

 outermost feathers with the outer webs light blue; lesser wing-coverts plain light blue; 

 middle coverts dusky, tipped with white; speculum uniform green, varying from metallic 

 grass-green to bronze; primaries and primary-coverts <lusky; upper tail-coverts dusky, 

 edged with pale fulvous; rectrices dusky, edged with brownish white or pale brownish 

 gray; axillars immaculate pure white. Bill ileep black; iris orange; feet orange, joints 

 and webs blackish. Adult female: Similar to that of A. discurs. but larger and deeper 

 colored, only the upper part of the throat (sometime on'y the ehln) unstreaked. the ab- 

 domen usually distinctly spotted; chest deeply tinged with light brown. Bill dusky, 

 paler beneath and along edge; iris brown; legs and feet ochreous-drab. Young male: 

 Similar to the adult female, but markings on the lower parts all distinctly longitudinal 

 or Btreak-llko. Downy young: Above dark olivaceous, relieved by a longitudinal ob- 

 long oblifiue spot of deep greenish buff on each side the back (behind the wings), an I 

 a similar spot of clearer yellowish on eai,-h side of the base of the tali; the anterior 

 spots conlluent with the yellow of the sides, the posterior ones isolated by the exten- 

 sion beneath them of the olivaceous of the tail. Plleum and hind nock similar to the back, 

 but darker; forohea<I, broad superciliary stripe, and rest of the head and neck, except 

 as described, w^ith entire lower parts, deep yellowish bulT, the sido of the head marked 

 with a distinct narrow stripe of dark brown extending from the upper base of the max- 

 illa to the eye, and thence back to the occiput. 



