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for the green-winged teal is still one of the common ducks 

 in Alabama. 



17. QUERQUEDULA DISCORS (Linnseus). 

 BLUE-WINGED TEAL. 



The first mention made of this species by Dr. Avery 

 was incidental, in writing of the pintail, and the quota- 

 tion will be found under that species. He states in this 

 article that the blue-winged teal appears at Greensboro 

 about March 1st, but in his original notes for 1886 there 

 is a record of the bird on Sept. 10th, and in 1891 this 

 note appears under date of Sept. 14th : "A flock of blue- 

 winged teal were reported at Cocke's Pond, of which Mr. 

 Cocke bagged two." "Once common, now seldom seen. 

 Winter resident." (1890d). 



No. 1082. Female. Greensboro. Oct. 9, 1893. W C. Avery. 



18. SPATULA CLYPEATA (Linnseus). 

 SHOVELLER. 



For first mention of this species see note under Dafila 

 acuta. "Seen in the spring, never in large numbers, but 

 in bunches of six to eight at the highest." (1890d). 



19. DAFILA ACUTA (Linnseus). 

 PINTAIL. 



"March 2nd I saw and obtained a specimen of Dafila 

 acuta (Pintail.) Have heard of others being shot. This 

 duck appears here about the first of March, with the 

 blue-wing teal, the bald pate and the blue-wing shovel- 

 ler." (1884.)" Once abundant during spring and autumn 

 migrations; but, like all ducks, growing yearly scarcer 

 in this country." (1890d). 



20. AIX SPONSA (Linnseus). 



WOOD DUCK. 

 "Summer Duck." 



"Once abundant, now not at all common. Twenty-five 

 years ago, in September, I saw one morning at least 

 three hundred of these ducks come at dawn, to feed in 

 a pond, at Millwood, on the Warrior River, ten miles 



