476 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



generally washed with dull cinnamon ; the head and neck flecked with 

 narrow dusky markings, except on the chin and upper throat; there is a 

 decided shading on the pileum, and an indistinct dusky stripe through 

 the eye, formed by a concentration of the dusky streaking; the rest of the 

 lower parts more or less spotted with dusky markings, the belly often being 

 immaculate ; most birds show a decided tinge of chestnut below ; the upper 

 parts are dusky brown varied with dull buff; the wings are similar to those 

 of the male, but are duller and the speculum is obscured and the white 

 boundaries not so broad and clear ; the longer scapulars lack the median 

 stripings (adult female, 8933, P. U. O. C, Province Buenos Aires, Octo- 

 ber, 1897). 



Young birds of the year resemble the female, but the lower parts are not 

 so definitely or heavily marked and present rather a streaked or narrow 

 barred appearance. 



Geographical Range. — Western North America from the Columbia 

 River and southern Canada southward ; Oregon, California, Utah, Colo- 

 rado, Nevada, Arizona, etc.; northwestern South America and the whole 

 of southern South America; Peru, Chili, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, 

 Pata8:onia, Straits of Maq-ellan and the Falkland Islands. 



This teal was not secured by Mr. Hatcher or his assistants in Pata- 

 gonia; the several birds which have formed a basis for the foregoing- 

 description were southern examples from the Province of Buenos Aires in 

 Argentina, as well as the series of these ducks in the British Museum. 



There are eggs in the collection of the British Museum of the Cinnamon 

 Teal, taken at Salt Lake, Utah, on the twenty-first of May ; there are other 

 sets taken at Sacaya, Tarapaca, North Chili, on January 23d ; at a point 

 in central Chili in October ; and in the Argentine Republic in November. 



The birds appear to be resident in both North and South America ; in 

 California they are found throughout the year and also in the central 

 regions of the Argentine Republic. That there is a large element of 

 migratory birds passing through in each of the countries where there are 

 always some present, cannot be doubted ; and further, so far as the present 

 data go, we are warranted in believing that the representatives of this 

 duck in the regions south of the equator which are migratory, migrate to 

 the south, in their annual pilgrimages ; while the migratory representatives 



