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northern range in winter is not determinable with exact- 

 ness from present data. The species passes north to 

 Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and to southern Paraguay. 

 It has been noted at Chorillos and Tungasuca, Peru; 

 near Quito, Ecuador; at Bogota and Santa Marta, Co- 

 lombia. These Ecuador and Colombia teal may be acci- 

 dental occurrences; it is significant, at least, that all the 

 specimens from Colombia were taken a half a century 

 ago, and the species has not been noted there by recent 

 collectors. 



Spring Migration. The northward movement of the 

 cinnamon teal in the United States begins about the 1st of 

 March, and arrivals have been noted at Ash Meadows, 

 Nev., March 18, 1891; Grangeville, Ida, April 11, 1887; 

 Chilliwack, British Columbia, April 24, 1888, and April 

 22, 1889 ; Beloit, Colo., March 23, 1892 ; Colorado Springs, 

 April 9, 1882; Loveland, Colo., April 13, 1890; Lay, Colo., 

 April 20, 1890; Omaha, Neb, April 10, 1896, and April 

 12, 1897; Lake Como, Wyoming, about May 5. 



Fall Migration. Southward migration occurs chiefly 

 in September, and the northern portion of the breeding 

 grounds from British Columbia to eastern Colorado is 

 deserted about the middle of October. 



Spatula clypeata (Linn.) Shoveller. 



Breeding Range. The principal North American sum- 

 mer home of the shoveller is in the prairie region of the 

 interior, from a little south of the Canadian border, north 

 to the Saskatchewan. Throughout this region it is com- 

 mon. To the eastward it is rare. It is scarcely common 

 as far as Hudson Bay; nor is it common east of a line 

 from southeastern Michigan to the mouth of Chesapeake 



