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others on June 14, after which they were found regularly in company with 

 other drakes. On June 14 one fed for some time on the open shore in 

 front of a blind where I was concealed. This bird walked along working 

 eagerly in the mud with its bill with all of the mannerisms of the Cinnamon 

 Teal. The call note of the male Blue-wing is a high-pitched tseef tseef 

 tseef, entirely different from the notes of the other male teal with which 

 I am familiar. 



13. Querquedula cyanoptera (Vieillot). Cinnamon Teal. — The 

 Cinnamon Teal was common at Lake Burford. One pair frequented a 

 marshy area near my boat landing and was seen in the rushes, or resting 

 on shore, constantly through the day. On one occasion two of these Teal 

 were trying to feed along a rush grown shore where a male Coot had taken 

 his stand, but he drove at them savagely time after time whenever they 

 came near, forcing them to take wing and fly a few feet to evade him. 



A single drake of this species that was shot on May 27, when in company 

 with a male mallard, had evidently bred this year, and after that date 

 summering males were fairly common. It was supposed that they had 

 bred at a lower altitude and had come up here to spend the summer, as 

 resident birds at Lake Burford were just beginning to lay. On June 6 

 toward dusk one flock of six males of this species, and later a second flock 

 of seven, came in to the lake high in air, circled about, and alighted in the 

 water. Apparently they had just arrived from a distance. 



These single males persisted in paying attention to females already 

 mated, much to the disgust of the paired drakes, who drove them away, 

 bowing at them and chattering angrily. On one occasion six were seen 

 making demonstration toward one female who paid no attention to them, 

 but followed her mate. He swam first at one and then another after each 

 chase returning to his mate and bowing rapidly, while occasionally she 

 bowed to him in return. After a few minutes another mated pair of teal 

 flew by and four of the males flew off in pursuit of them, leaving the first 

 male only two to combat. 



The only note that I have ever heard from the male Cinneamon Teal is 

 a low rattling, chattering note that can be heard only for a short distance. 



14. Spatula clypeata (Linnaeus). Shoveller. — The Shoveller was 

 fairly common at Lake Burford and fifteen pairs apparently nested here. 

 On May 27, about forty pairs were feeding on the small lake known as 

 Hayden's Lake but these birds were thought to be in migration as they 

 disappeared at once. On the large lake, Spoonbills were found in shallow 

 bays, in which the shore was open or with only scattered rush growth, 

 where they fed by submerging the head and working through the mud at 

 the bottom. 



Males bowed to their mates, in the same way as do the Cinnamon Teal, 

 by extending the neck straight up and then retracting it with the bill held 

 slightly above horizontal. At the same time they often give a low rattling 

 note like chu-uck chu-uck. The females usually responded by bowing, 



