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County, where it has been seen all summer (iV. P. Smith, 1916). The species has been taken as late as 
May 17 at the tip of Lower California (Brewster, 1902) and Grayson (La's\Tence, 1874) thinks that 
some must nest in western Mexico about Mazatlan, where he saw them throughout Mexico 
the summer. Leyland (Moore, 1859) foimd it nesting as far south as Omoa, Honduras ! 
March (1864) speaks of it as resident in Jamaica, and in the Grenadines it is knowm 
to have nested on Isle Rhonde, and it probably breeds also on Carriacou (Wells, 1887; 
Clark, 1905; P. R. Lowe, 1911). Ramsden (1910) found specimens near Guantanamo, 
Cuba, on June 12. 
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Winter Range 
The Blue-winged Teal winters far south, in most cases south of the southern parts of its breeding 
range. According to Cooke (1906) a few winter in the West as far north as British 
Columbia, but I find no published evidence to substantiate this. It is not known to 
winter in Washington or Oregon and even in California it occurs only casually chiefly 
in the south (Grinnell, Bryant and Storer, 1918). A few winter in Arizona (Swarth, 
1914) and possibly in New Mexico. It is a common bird in Texas (Strecker, 1912), and 
is very abundant on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana (Beyer, Allison and Kopman, 1907), where I have 
seen hundreds of thousands in January. Only a few winter as far north as Arkansas in mild winters 
(Howell, 1911). 
I do not believe that it winters regularly in the Mississippi Valley, though Ridgway (1895) says 
it occurs in Rlinois, and Cooke (1906) makes a similar statement in regard to southern Indiana. It is 
very common on the Gulf Coast, in Mississippi, Alabama (Golsan and Holt, 1914) and in Florida 
(Scott, 1888, 1892; Cory, 1896; R. W. Williams, 1904). On the Atlantic coast it 
winters commonly as far north as South Carolina (Wayne, 1910), and in very small 
numbers in North Carolina (Club records at Currituck; T. G. Pearson, C. S. and 
H. H. Brimley, 1919), the Virginias (Rives, 1890); still more rarely in Delaware 
(Rhoads and Pennock, 1905), or even New Jersey (W. Stone, 1909). 
A few of these Teal occasionally winter in Bermuda (J.M. Jones, 1859), but in the West Indies they 
are everywhere abundant: in the Bahamas (Cory, 1889; Riley, 1905), Cuba (Gund- 
lach, 1875), the Isle of Pines (Bangs and Zappey, 1905), Jamaica (March, 1864; P. L. 
Sclater, 1910), Santo Domingo (A. E. and A. H. Verrill, 1909), Porto Rico (Gimd- West 
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lach, 1875; W'etmore, 1916) and the Lesser Antilles: Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada 
and the Grenadines (Wells, 1887; Clark, 1905), and on Trinidad (F. M. Chapman, 1894; Hellma 
1906). 
The Blue-wing winters throughout Mexico and has been recorded from Lower California (Brew 
ster, 1902), Sonora (J. A. Allen, 1893), Chihuahua (J. A. Allen, 1893), Nuevo Leon (Sanchez, 1877- 
78), Tamaulipas (Phillips, 1911; Sanford, Bishop and Van Dyke, 1903), Sinaloa 
(Lawrence, 1874), Durango (Forrer, fide Salvin and Godman, 1897-1904), Jalisco 
(Duges, 1869; Sanchez, 1877-78; Beebe, 1905), Colima (U.S. Biological Survey), Guanajuato (Duges, 
1869), Valle de Mexico (Herrera, 1888; Sumichrast, 1881), Puebla (Ferrari-Perez, 1886), Vera Cruz 
(Salle,^de Salvin and Godman, 1897-1904), Oaxaca (Boucard,^de Salvin and Godman, 1897-1904) 
and Tabasco (Rovirosa, 1887). It has also been found in Yucatan, at Progreso, and on Mujeres and 
Cozumel Islands {fide Salvin and Godman, 1897-1904) and at Chichen-Itza and the Great Cenote 
(Cole, 1906). In British Honduras it has been met with at Belize (Moore, 1859), and 
from Guatemala there are records for Acapam, Coban, Duenas, Santana, Mixtan and 
Lake Atitlan (Salvin and Godman, 1897-1904; Dearborn, 1907). Leyland (Moore, 
1859) found the species at Omoa, Honduras, and G. C. Taylor (1860) met with it in the interior at 
Yojoa Lake, as well as at Tigre Island and Fonseca Bay, on the Pacific coast. Nutting (1884) found 
it at San Juan del Sur and Sucuya, Nicaragua, and Richmond (1893) has recorded it from the Rio 
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