66 HISTORY OF THE 



Anas cyanoptera VIKILL. 



CINNAMON TEAL. 

 PLATE V. 



Rare in eastern, but not uncommon in middle and western 

 Kansas; occasionally breed there. 



B. 582: R. 610. C. 717. G. 289, 30. U. 141. 



HABITAT. Western America, from Washington Territory south 

 to Chili and Falkland Islands; in North America, east to the 

 plains and casual to Florida and Manitoba. 



SP. CHAR. "Adult male: Head, neck and lower parts rich purple chestnut, 

 duller sometimes quite dusky on the abdomen; pileuni and crissum black; 

 scapulars and part of the back chestnut, marked with U-shaped bars of black, 

 the middle of the back more dusky; tertials black, with a central stripe of buff; 

 longer scapulars similar, the outermost feathers with the outer webs light blue; 

 lesser wing coverts plain light blue; middle coverts dusky, tipped with white; 

 speculum uniform green, varying from metallic grass green to bronze; primaries 

 and primary coverts dusky; upper tail coverts dusky, edged with pale fulvous; 

 rectrices dusky, edged with brownish white or pale brownish gray; axillars im- 

 maculate pure white. Bill deep black; iris orange; feet orange, joints and webs 

 blackish. Adult female: Similar to that of Q. discors, but larger and deeper 

 colored, only the upper part of the throat (sometimes only the chin) unstreaketl, 

 the abdomen usually distinctly spotted; jugulum deeply tinged with light 

 brown. Young male: Similar to the adult female, but markings on the lower 

 parts all distinctly longitudinal or streak-like. Downy young: Above, dark 

 olivaceous, relieved by a longitudinal, oblong oblique spot of deep greenish buff 

 on each side of the back ( behind the wings), and a similar spot of clearer yel- 

 lowish on each side of the base of the tail; the anterior spots confluent with 

 the yellow of the sides, the posterior ones isolated by the extension beneath 

 them of the olivaceous of the tail. Pileum and nape similar to the back, but 

 darker; forehead, broad superciliary stripe, and rest of the head and neck, ex- 

 cept as described, with the entire lower parts, deep yellowish buff, the sides of 

 the head marked with a distinct narrow stripe of dark brown, extending from 

 the upper base of the maxilla to the eye, thence back to the occiput." 



Stretch of 

 Length. wing: Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Bill. 



Male 16.50 25.50 7.75 3.50 1.25 1.75 



Female... 14.50 23.50 7.30 3.10 1.20 1.65 



This western species is quite common east of the plains, 

 rare beyond, and but a straggler east of the Mississippi River. 

 Their habits, so far as they have come under my observation, 

 are similar to the Blue-wing. 



The birds no doubt occasionally breed throughout their 

 range, but chiefly between latitudes 40 and 46 north. June 



