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perfectly typical female of Querquedula discors, having the under 

 parts colored with the rusty stain already described. 



Mr. Arthur T. Wayne has been similarly misled by the presence 

 of much rusty red (and also, as he writes me, by the somewhat 

 exceptionally coarse markings) on the under parts of an adult 

 female Teal which he shot at Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, on 

 April 12, 1904. After having reported 1 this bird as an example 

 of Q. cyano'ptera he very kindly sent it to me for examination. 

 Like the specimen taken by Mr. Atkins at Key West it is, without 

 question, a Blue-winged Teal. 



Still another eastern record of Q. cyanoptera remains to be con- 

 sidered. It is that by Mr. Samuel N. Rhoads 2 of "a fine specimen 

 of a male Cinnamon Teal, still in the flesh," which he examined in 

 Krider's gun store in Philadelphia. It was killed by Mr. Charles 

 S. Hebard in Lake Iamonia, Florida, on or about February 18, 

 1893. Mr. Hebard, writing to Mr. Rhoads about the capture of 

 this bird, says: "When I got to where it fell I was struck by its 

 beauty and decided to have it mounted." This would indicate 

 that it was not either a female or an immature male. Moreover 

 Mr. Rhoads, in a letter to me dated December 8, 1905, asserts 

 that his "remembrance is that" the specimen "was in nuptial 

 or fully adult male plumage." If this were really so he could not 

 have made any mistake with respect to its identification. It is 

 notoriously unsafe, however, to trust implicitly to human memory 

 in matters of this kind. On the whole the evidence given by Mr. 

 Rhoads does not seem quite conclusive, although it certainly war- 

 rants the assumption that the bird killed by Mr. Hebard was prob- 

 ably a Cinnamon Teal. If the specimen is still in existence it 

 should be reexamined and reported on by some competent ornithol- 

 ogist, for the record relating to it is apparently the only one 

 remaining which affords anything like definite grounds for believ- 

 ing that the Cinnamon Teal has ever occurred in our South Atlan- 

 tic States. 



i Auk, XXII, 1905, 396. 

 2 Auk, X, 1893, 362, 363. 



