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Nebr.



Nebraska.



Tex.



Texas.



S. C.



South Carolina.



Colo.



Colorado.



The breeding range of the Cinnamon Teal differs essentially

from that of almost every other duck in the Western Hemisphere.

It consists of a large area north of the Equator and a similar district

south of the Equator, and these two homes are separated by a strip

about 2,000 miles wide, in which the species is practically unknown.

In North America the breeding range extends north to Southern

British Columbia (Lac la Hache) and South-Western Alberta ; east

to Eastern Wyoming' (Lake Como, Cheyenne), Western Kansas

(Fort Wallace, Meade County) ; south to Northern Lower California

(La Grulla, San Bafael Valley, and possibly San Jose del Cabo),

Northern Mexico (Chihuahua City), Southern New Mexico (Carls¬

bad), and South-Western Texas (Marathon, Rock Spring).


The Cinnamon Teal occurs sparingly on migration as far east

as Houston, Tex., and Omaha, Nebr. It has been noted as accidental

at Oak Lake, Manitoba ; Big Stone Lake, Minnesota ; Lake Koshko-

nong', Wisconsin ; Licking County Reservoir, Ohio ; Seneca River

and Seneca Lake, New York ; Lake Pontchartrain, Lake Catta-

watchie, St. Malo, and Opelousas, Louisiana ; Mount Pleasant, S. C.;

Lake Iamonia and Key West, Florida.


Throughout this breeding area the eggs are deposited during

May and June. About six months later the South American Colony

breeds. The breeding range includes the pampas of Argentine as far

north as Buenos Ayres, while in the Andes it extends north to

Central Peru (Santa Luzia). Southward the species breeds as far

as the Falkland Islands and Straits of Magellan. South American

breeders of course are not the same birds which nest in North

America, for it is true, without exception, that no bird which breeds

north of the Equator breeds also in the southern hemisphere.


Winter Range .—The Cinnamon Teal of North America

retires in winter but little south of its breeding range in Mexico as

far as Mazatlan, Guanajuato, and the Laguna de Chapulco, Puebla.

It is found at this season as far north as Brownsville, Tex., Central

New Mexico, Southern Arizona, and Tulare Lake, California. South



