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in New Mexico (Cooke, 1906). Although not reported wintering in Texas, the species occurs 
occasionally in Louisiana in autumn or winter (Beyer, Allison and Kopman, 1907). Coast 
McAtee (1911b) states that in 1911 it was not uncommon, at least twenty spe- 
cimens having been recorded. It is even reported as increasing there now. 
But the great wintering area in the northern hemisphere is not known, for not many seem to stay 
in northern Mexico. J. A. Allen (1893) has recorded it from Sonora, and there are further records 
for Mazatlan (Lawrence, 1874), Durango (U.S. Biological Survey), Matamoros, 
northern Tamaulipas (Phillips, 1911), Guanajuato (Duges, 1869), Jalisco (Sanchez, 
1877-78; Beebe, 1905), Vera Cruz (P. L. Sclater, 1856), Valle de Mexico (Sanchez, 1877-78; U.S. 
Biological Survey), Guerrero (U.S. Biological Survey), Puebla (Ferrari-Perez, 1886) and Tabasco 
(Rovirosa, 1887). J. J. Rodriguez (1909-10) includes the species in his list of birds of Guatemala 
and it has been reported in great flocks on Lake Nicaragua (Rendahl, 1919). There is a specimen 
from Costa Rica in the San Jose Museum (Zeledon, 1887), and according to de Armas (1893) it has 
been taken near Colon. 
Its status in the West Indies is that of a rare straggler. L’Herminier (Lawrence, 1879) in an old 
list gave Guadeloupe and Martinique as localities where it was found, and recently an- West 
other specimen has been taken at Laguna de Ariguanabo, Cuba (V. J. Rodriguez, Indies 
1917). Brewer (1860) had already included the species in a list of the birds of Cuba Atlantic 
based on observations of Dr. Gundlach. Recently (December 7, 1922) a single adult Coast 
male was shot by Dr. H. B. Bigelow at Pea Island, Dare County, North Carolina. This bird, 
whose skin is now in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Massachusetts, was 
with a small flock of Blue-winged Teal. 
Migration in North America 
On this point I am unable to add much to the notes given by Cooke (1906). Near Lagima, eastern 
Mexico, Sanford (Sanford, Bishop and Van Dyke, 1903) first noted the species late in March, though 
it was not common till May. In the United States arrivals have been noted at Ash Meadows, 
Nevada, March 18; Grangeville, Idaho, April 11; Chilliwack, British Columbia, April 24; Beloit, 
Colorado, April 23; Colorado Springs, April 9; Loveland, Colorado, April 13; Lay, Colorado, April 
20; Omaha, Nebraska, April 10; Lake Como, Wyoming, May 5 (Cooke, 1906); and Bitter-root 
Valley, Montana, May 12 (A. A. Saunders, 1921). 
In autumn the birds leave the United States in late September or early October. As remarked 
above, it is not clear where the bulk of them spend the winter. The small numbers found in southern 
California, Arizona and northern Mexico are perhaps birds which nested in British Columbia and 
Washington. The sporadic breeding birds east of the Rocky Mountains probably go to Louisiana in 
winter. But where the great mass of birds from California, Utah and Nevada, ete., go, is a puzzle. 
Wetmore (MS.) banded forty-five on the Bear River Marshes, Utah, in September, 1914, from which 
he received five returns. Four of these were recovered from the same locality where banded, but 
one was taken on January 20, 1915, at Mainer Lake, Brazoria County, on the east coast of Texas. 
Yet comparatively few ordinarily winter in Texas or northern Mexico. The species may be more 
common in southern Mexico, but it is interesting to note that about all the records for Colombia 
are for the winter months, so that their journey south may be much farther than is commonly 
suspected 
South America 
In South America the Cinnamon Teal is confined to the western and southern parts. Information 
is too meager to make a distinct division into winter and summer range, or to enable one to determine 
the migration. In many sections, it is no doubt a resident bird. 
