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The average date at which the last was seen at Mont- 

 real was Sept. 25 ; latest, Sept. 29, 1888 ; the last one 

 seen on Prince Edward Island in this same year was 

 Oct. 8; Lewiston, Me., Nov. 7, 1901; Cape May, N. J., 

 Dec. 5, 1884. 



The average date for eight years when the last one 

 was seen at Ottawa, Ont., is Oct. 13 (latest, Oct. 27, 

 1894); Chicago, 111., Oct. 18 (latest, Oct. 22, 1904); 

 southern Iowa, Oct. 22 (latest, Nov. 4, 1885 ; central 

 South Dakota, Oct. 7; eastern Nebraska, Nov. 11; cen- 

 tral Missouri, Nov. 6 (latest, Nov. 13, 1902). The last 

 one seen in 1896 at Aweme, Man., was on Oct. 30. Dur- 

 ing the fall migration the blue-winged teal is fairly com- 

 mon on the Bermudas, but it rarely occurs there in 

 spring. 



Querquedula cyanoptera (Vieill.) Cinnamon Teal. 



Breeding Range. The breeding range of the cinnamon 

 teal differs essentially from that of almost every other 

 duck in the Western Hemisphere. It consists of a large 

 area north of the equator and a similar district south of 

 the equator, and these two homes are separated by a 

 strip about 2,000 miles wide, in^which the species is prac- 

 tically unknown. In North America the breeding range 

 extends north to southern British Columbia (Lac la 

 Hache) and southwestern Alberta; east to eastern Wy- 

 oming (Lake Como, Cheyenne), western Kansas (Fort 

 Wallace, Meade County) ; south to northern Lower Cali- 

 fornia (La Grulla, San Rafael Valley, and possibly San 

 Jose del Cabo), northern Mexico (Chihuahua City), 

 southern New Mexico (Carlsbad), and southwestern 

 Texas (Marathon, Rock Spring.) 



