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Blue- WINGED Teal: Querquedula discors. — The blue-winged teal 

 with his white eye crescent, larg,. bine wing patch, and brown body- 

 is one of the easily recognized ducks and may be looked for as a 

 spring and fall migrant. In 18S7 Dr. Grinnell found the bine-wing 

 abundant on the Lower St. Mary Lake in September, but he says it 

 was one of the earliest ducks to leave for the south. 



Cinna:mon Teal: Qiierqiiedula cyanoptera. — Mr. Stevenson has 

 noted the cinnamon-colored teal in the spring migration, and Mr. 

 Bryant says that it used to breed at Flathead Lake. 



Photograph by Robert E. Rockwell. 



Fig. 24. — GrePn wingpcl teal. 



Shoveller : Spatula chjpeata. — A female shoveller with its spoon- 

 shaped bill was seen, August 29, and a male and female on August 30 

 on Lake McDonald. Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Gibb report them as 

 spring and fall migrants, but not common. In the fall of 1887 Dr. 

 Grinnell found them very abundant on the prairie lakes and the 

 Lower St. Mary Lake associated with teal, widgeon, gadwall, and 

 mallard. He said they left late in October. In June, 1895, Messrs. 

 Bailey and Howell reported shovellers seen in nearly all the ponds 

 on the prairie near Blackfeet Agency, now Browning. Six or eight 

 pairs were seen and a few single males. On April 21, 1918, Mr. 

 Bailey saw hundreds of shovellers on Lake McDonald, some in pairs 

 but more in large flocks, and all the males in handsome spring dress, 

 with black head, white chest, and chestnut belly. 



