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south as Lake Winnipeg. It is numerous also westward to the 

 Pacific slope, breeding in the mountain region of Oregon, and 

 northward to Alaska. In the East it is quite common during the 

 migrations, though perhaps more numerous in the interior than 

 on the lakes and streams adjacent to the coast, and breeding 

 chiefly in the Hudson Bay region north of latitude 50 degrees. 

 Being a strictly freshwater bird, it is rarely found along the 

 sea-shore, though I have met with stragglers occasionally near 

 the mouths of streams which empty into the Bay of Fundy. 



I cannot indorse Nuttall's statement that the males are rarely 

 seen in the autumn in this region, though they do usually appear 

 in small flocks, and separated from the females. 



This species ranges in winter from " Kansas and Virginia south- 

 ward to the West Indies and Central America" (Chapman). 



Note. — A few examples of the Cinnamon Teai. (Anas cyan- 

 optera) have wandered from the Pacific slope to the valley of the 

 Mississippi and to Manitoba. Another straggler of this group — 

 the European Teal {Anas crecca) — has been taken on the 

 Atlantic coast. 



