BIRDS OF MINNESOTA. 47 
Length, 16; wing 7.10; tarsus, 1.20; commissure, 1.85. 
Habitat, North America generally. 
Later observations have convinced me that as a species 
they breed much more extensively throughout the State than 
does the Green-winged Teal. In the lacustrine portions, like 
the counties in the northwestern division of the Common- 
wealth as well as in the southeastern, I have the fullest assur- 
ances from my local observers to justify the opinion. I have 
found them doing so in five or six localities in my own county, 
(Hennepin. ) 
ANAS CYANOPTERA VierLuor. (141.) 
CINNAMON TEAL. 
On a few occasions since I have resided in the State I have 
found one of these beautiful ducks amongst others brought 
into the markets by hunters from the head waters of the Red 
river. On one such occasion my attention was specially called 
to ‘‘a hybrid duck” that proved to be one of these. I have 
been accustomed to seeing them in Lower California, where they 
are at home the year around. Of course those seen are rare 
stragglers, but as an occasional individual may continue to be 
seen, I will reproduce their brief description. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 
General color a rich, dark purplish chestnut; top of head, 
chin and middle of belly, tinged with brown; crissum, dark- 
brown; fore part of back, lighter with two or three more or 
less interrupted concentric bars of dark brown; feathers of 
rump and tail, greenish-brown, the former edged with paler; 
wing coverts, and outer webs of some scapulars, blue, others 
dark velvet-green, streaked centrally with yellowish-buff; edges 
of wing coverts, white, as are the axillaries and middle of wing 
beneath; feathers of uniform chestnut, without bands; specu- 
lum, metallic-green. 
Length, 17.80; wing, 7.50; tarsus, 1.15; commissure, 2, 
Habitat, western America. 
SPATULA CLYPEATA (L.). (142.) 
SHOVELLER. 
In driving across the high rolling prairie a few miles south- 
west of Fort Snelling, I discovered a female of this species in 
the distance, laboriously waddling through the grass less than 
one foot in height, up a gentle slope. <A familiar muskrat 
pond of moderate size lay between me and the duck, from the 
shores of which emerged numerous paths of the muskrats which 
