AMERICAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL 
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West Indies 
river of the same name (Golsan and Holt, 1914), while western Mississippi with Louisiana forms its 
chief winter resort. 
In the West Indies the Green-wing winters in great numbers in the Bahamas (Cory, 1890; Riley, 
1905), but in Cuba and Jamaica it is rare (Gundlach, 1875; P. L. Sclater, 1910), wLile from Haiti 
and Porto Rico it has never been recorded. On the other hand it seems to be common 
in the Lesser Antilles, on the islands of St. Vincent, Grenada and in the Grenadines 
(Clark, 1905) as well as in Carriacou (Wells, 1902). 
The species winters throughout most of Mexico whence it has been recorded for Sonora (Ferrari- 
Perez, 1886), Lower California (Belding, 1883), Chihuahua (Sanchez, 1877-78), Sinaloa (LawTence, 
1874), Zacatecas (Richardson, British Museum), Tamaulipas (Phillips, 1911), Vera 
Cruz (P. L. Sclater, 1857a, 1859a, 1860a), Guanajuato and Jalisco (Sanchez, 1877- 
78; Beebe, 1905), Michoacan (fide Cooke, 1906), Mexico (Sanchez, 1877-78; Villada, 1891-92), 
Tlaxcala (Ferrari-Perez, 1886) and Tabasco (Rovirosa, 1887). It has been taken also in British 
Honduras in the Orange Walk district (Goss, 1891), and in Honduras (Dyson, fide P. L. Sclater 
and Salvin, 1876; Moore, 1859). J. J. Rodriguez (1909-10) includes it as a doubtful species in his 
list of Guatemalan birds. 
Mexico 
Extra-Limital Records 
A FEW records outside the regular range remain to be mentioned. In the Bermudas the species is 
said to occur occasionally in autumn (J. M. Jones, 1859; von Martens, 1859; Reid, 1884). It has also 
been taken three times in England, viz., in Hampshire, 1840; in York, 1851; and in Devon, 1879 
(Brit. Ornith. Union Check-list, 1915). There are no further European records. In the Pacific the 
Green-wing occasionally visits the Haw'aiian group (R. C. L. Perkins, 1903) and possibly Laysan 
(Bryan, 1915). I have already mentioned the one record for Japan (Kuroda, 1920). In the remark- 
able appearance of American ducks in the Marshall Islands, the Green-winged Teal was also rep- 
resented by considerable numbers (Reichenow, 1899a, 1901; Schnee, 1901). 
Passage Area 
The greater part of the United States is for this species merely a passage area. States that may 
be included in this area are California (Grinnell, Bryant and Storer, 1918), and especially the interior 
States such as Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado (W. L. Sclater, 1912), Kansas 
(Goss, 1886; Bunker, 1913), Nebraska (Bruner, Wolcott and Swenk, 1905), the Dakotas, Minnesota 
(Hatch, 1892; Roberts, 1919), Iowa (R. M. Anderson, 1907), Missouri (Widmann, 1907), Arkansas 
(Howell, 1911) and all the States east of the Mississippi, excepting the coastal States from Virginia 
to Florida, where the species is a winter bird, rather than a bird of passage. In Canada the area of 
passage includes everything east of Manitoba. In the Maritime Provinces it is scarcely more than a 
straggler, at least this is so in Quebec and Nova Scotia, although small flights do at times occur 
(Dionne, 1906; Wuntle, 1896; Mcllwraith, 1894; C. W. G. Eifrig, 1910). In Ontario on the other 
hand it passes through the Lake region in great numbers. 
Migration 
Dates of first arrivals on migration mean very little for this species. In 1916 at Long Point, Lake 
Erie, they were present in thousands as early as October 2, with perhaps double that number of 
Blue-winged Teal. Yet the bulk of the migration is late. In New England the Green-wing, rare as 
it is, appears almost always in November, between the 1st and the 10th, and records at Wenham 
Lake show it as late as December. In 1919 early in November there were a few; and again in 1920 
there was a small scattered flight. In 1922 it appeared in mid-October. 
