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Quebec, and New Brunswick; winters from Aleutian Islands, British 

 Columbia, Nevada, southern Nebraska, northern Indiana, western 

 New York, and Rhode Island (casually Nova Scotia) south to south- 

 ern Lower California, the West Indies, and Honduras; accidental 

 in Hawaii, Bermuda, Greenland, and Great Britain. 



Genus QUERQUEDULA Oken. 



Qxierqiiedula Oken, Isis, I, 1817, 1183. Type, by tautonymy, Anas circia 

 LiNN^trs = Anas querquedula Linn.«;it8. 



QuerquMuladiscors (LiNN^us). Blue-winged Teal. [140.] 



Anas discors Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 205. (Virginia or 

 Carolina.) 



Range. — Western Hemisphere. Breeds from central British Co- 

 lumbia, Great Slave Lake, central Ungava, and Newfoundland south 

 to central Oregon, northern Nevada, northern New Mexico, central 

 Missouri, southern Indiana, northern Ohio, western New York (occa- 

 sionally Rhode Island), and Maine; winters from southern British 

 Columbia, Arizona, southern Illinois, Maryland, and Delaware south 

 to the West Indies and South America as far as Brazil and Chile; 

 accidental in Bermuda and Europe. 



Querquedula cyanoptera (Vieillot). Cinnamon Teal. [141.] 



Anas q/anoplera Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., V, 1816, 104. 

 (Rio de la Plata and Buenos Aires.) 



Range. — North and South America. Breeds in North America 

 from southern British Columbia, southwestern Alberta, southeastern 

 Wyoming, and western Kansas south to northern Lower California, 

 northern Chihuahua, southern New Mexico, and southwestern Texas ; 

 winters from southern California, central New Mexico, and southern 

 Texas south to southern Lower California and central Mexico; cas- 

 ual in Manitoba, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, Nebraska, Missouri, 

 Iowa, New York, Louisiana, and Florida. Occiu-s in South America 

 from Peru and Brazil south to the Falkland Islands. 



