BIRDS OF MINNESOTA. 47 



Length, 16; wing 7.10; tarsus, 1.20; commissure. 1.85. 



Habitat, North America generally. 



Later observations have convinced me that as a species 

 they breed much more extensively throughout the State than 

 does the Green-winged Teal. In the lacustrine portions, like 

 the counties in the northwestern division of the Common 

 wealth as well as in the southeastern, I have the fullest assur- 

 ances from my local observers to justify the opinion. I have 

 found them doing so in five or six localities in my own county, 

 (Hennepin.) 



ANAS CYANOPTERA Vieillot. (141.) 



CINNAMON TEAL. 



On a few occasions since I have resided in the State I have 

 found one of these beautiful ducks amongst others brought 

 into the markets by hunters from the head waters of the Red 

 river. On one such occasion my attention was specially called 

 to "a hybrid duck" that proved to be one of these. I have 

 been accustomed to seeing them in Lower California, where they 

 are at home the year around. Of course those seen are rare 

 stragglers, but as an occasional individual may continue to be 

 seen, I will reproduce their brief description. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



General color a rich, dark purplish chestnut; top of head, 

 chin and middle of belly, tinged with brown; crissum, dark- 

 brown; fore part of back, lighter with two or three more or 

 less interrupted concentric bars of dark brown; feathers of 

 rump and tail, greenish-brown, the former edged with paler; 

 wing coverts, and outer webs of some scapulars, blue, others 

 dark velvet-green, streaked centrally with yellowish-buff; edges 

 of wing coverts, white, as are the axillaries and middle of wing 

 beneath; feathers of uniform chestnut, without bands; specu- 

 lum, metallic green. 



Length, 17.80; wing, 7.50; tarsus, 1.15; commissure, 2, 



Habitat, western America. 



SPATULA CLYPEATA (L.). (142.) 



SHOVELLER. 



In driving across the high rolling prairie a few miles south- 

 west of Port Snelling, I discovered a female of this sx3ecies in 

 the distance, laboriously waddling through the grass less than 

 one foot in height, up a gentle slope. A familiar muskrat 

 pond of moderate size lay between me and the duck, from the 

 shores of which emerged numerous paths of the muskrats which 



