CINNAMON TEAL 



141. Querquedula cyanoptera. 16 in. 



Male with the whole head, neck and underparts bright 

 cinnamon; wings as in the Blue-winged species. Female 

 similar to the female Blue-wing, but more rusty below, 

 and the throat is tinted or quite dark, while that of 

 the last species is usually light. These beautiful birds 

 are very abundant west of the Rocky Mountains, but 

 are of only casual or accidental occurrence east of the 

 Mississippi Valley and sometimes Southern Florida 

 Their favorite nesting places are in fields of tall grass 

 or clover, in close proximity to marshes or ponds. 



Nest. Compactly woven of grasses and lined with 

 down; they lay from eight to as many as thirteen buffy 

 white eggs, size 1.85x1.35; May, June. 



Range. Breeds in Western United States and British 

 Columbia. Occurs rarely in the Mississippi Valley, 

 Southern Texas and Florida. 



