the next pond makes about as pretty a target as the 

 sportsman often fires at. 



The green-winged teal, like the widgeon, feeds a 

 great deal on the plains and in the fields. 



Color Male Top of head and neck, brown of a chest- 

 nut tinge, the feathers forming almost a crest; a broad 

 stripe of green runs back from the eye to the neck; 

 back and sides, mottled gray; breast, buff, shaded to 

 white on the abdomen and spotted with black; specu- 

 lum, green. 



Female The top of the head of the female is a rusty 

 brown, and with a very faint stripe on the sides; upper 

 parts, gray, spotted with black; speculum, green. 



Nest and Eggs The nest of the green-winged teal is 

 generally a little more carefully made than most of 

 the ground nesting ducks. The eggs average about ten 

 and are of a light brownish buff. 



Measurements The green-winged teal is the smallest 

 of the fresh-water ducks. Total length, about 14 inches; 

 wing, T 1 ^; bill, 1% inches. 



THE CINNAMON TEAL 

 (Anas cyanoptera) 



The cinnamon teal, very commonly called the blue- 

 winged teal by the sportsmen of the Coast, is only a 

 late fall and early spring bird on our shooting grounds 

 north of Lower California and Mexico. While the cin- 

 namon teal has a blue wing there is no resemblance 

 between the male cinnamon and the male blue-winged. 

 The females of the two species, however, have a marked 

 resemblance in color but a wide difference in shape of 

 body. The female cinnamon teal is much darker on 

 the throat than the blue-winged female, and generally 

 shows a considerable of the cinnamon color of the male. 

 The male of the blue-winged teal partakes more of the 

 grayish color of the green-winged variety and has a 

 white crescent in front of the eye. The northern limit 

 of the cinnamon teal is about the latitude of San Fran- 

 cisco so far as their appearance on our shooting grounds 

 is concerned. A few, however, go farther north for 

 breeding purposes. They are quite common in the 

 southern part of California, where they come to breed. 

 They winter in Mexico, Lower California and Arizona 

 in great numbers. They nest on the mountain lakes 

 and along the mountain streams of California and even 

 as far north as Oregon. In southern California they 

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