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for the green-winged teal is still one of the common ducks 

 in Alabama. 



17. QUERQUEDULA DISCORS (LinnaBUs). 

 Bluej-winged Teal. 



The first mention made of this species by Dr. Avery 

 was incidental, in writing of the pintail, and the quota- 

 tion will be found under that species. He states in this 

 -article that the blue-winged teal appears at Greensboro 

 about March 1st, but in his original notes for 1886 there 

 is a record of the bird on Sept. 10th, and in 1891 this 

 note appears under date of Sept. 14th : "A flock of blue- 

 winged teal were reported at Cocke's Pond, of which Mr, 

 €ocke bagged two." "Once common, now seldom seen. 

 Winter resident." (1890d). 



No. 1082. Female. Greensboro. Oct. 9, 1893. W C. Avery. 



18. SPATULA CLYPEATA (Llnnseus). 

 Shoveller. 



For first mention of this species see note under DafUa 

 ■acuta. "Seen in the spring, never in large numbers, but 

 in bunches of six to eight at -the highest." (1890d). 



19. DAFILA ACUTA (Linnsus). 

 Pintail. 



"March 2nd I saw and obtained a specimen of DafUa 

 .acuta (Pintail.) Have heard of others being shot. This 

 duck appears here about the first of March, with the 

 blue-wing teal, the bald pate and the blue-wing shovel- 

 ler." (1884.)" Once abundant during spring and autumn 

 migrations; but, like all ducks, growing yearly scarcer 

 in this country." (1890d). 



20. AIX SPONSA (Linnseus). 



Wood Duck. 



"Summer Duck." 



"Once abundant, now not at all common. Twenty-five 

 years ago, in September, I saw one morning at least 

 three hundred of these ducks come at dawn, to feed in 

 .a pond, at Millwood, on the Warrior River, ten miles 



