32 NOETH AMERICAN DUCKS,' GEESE, AND SWANS. 



have been found at Edmonton, Alberta, latitude 54°, May 27, and in 

 southern Ontario, latitude 45°, May 22. Downy young were seen in 

 the Devils. Lake region of North Dakota June 20. 



Fall migration— An average date for the reappearance of the green- 

 winged teal at Erie, Pa., is September 15 (earliest, September 1, 1894); 

 at Alexandria, Va., September 29 (earliest, September 22); but it is not 

 considered common until early November. Corresponding dates of 

 arrival are: Keokuk, Iowa, September 21; central Kansas, September 

 12; central Texas, September 22; central California, September 17. 

 The last was noted on Prince Edward Island, November 4, 1890; Mon- 

 treal, Canada, November 1, 1893; Aweme, Manitoba, October 30, 1896; 

 Kowak River, Alaska, September 3, 1898; St. Michael, Alaska, the 

 first week in October. The average date of the last seen in southern 

 Ontario (thirteen years) is October 28 (latest, November 7, 1890); at 

 Keokuk, Iowa (seven years), November 22 (latest, November 27, 1902). 



Querquedula discprs (Linn.)- Blue- winged Teal. 



Breeding range. — The principal summer home of this teal is the 

 interior of North America between the Rocky Mountains and the Great 

 Lakes, from Northern Illinois and central Iowa north to Saskatchewan. 

 The species is not common east of the Allegheny Mountains nor on the 

 Pacific slope. It has been recorded as breeding rarely in Rhode 

 Island (Sakonnet, 1890), Maine (Calais), New Brunswick (Kings 

 County, St. John County), Nova Scotia, Anticosti Island and New- 

 foundland, Quebec (Montreal, Point de Monts), Ungava (Clearwater 

 Lake, latitude 57°), rare in southern Ontario (Toronto), New York 

 (Utica, Auburn, Buffalo, formerly Long Island, Black Pond, Ulster 

 County). It breeds as far south as northern Ohio (Port Clinton, 

 Sandusky), southern Indiana (Gibson County and Wheatland), southern 

 Illinois (Anna), central Missouri (Kings Lake, Warrensburg, Kansas 

 City), central Kansas (Emporia, Wichita, Medicine Lodge, FortHays) — - 

 casual or accidental breeding at Fort Reno, Okla., and San Antonio 

 and Spring Lake, Texas — southern Colorado (Fort Garland and La 

 Plata County), New Mexico (Santa Rosa; Black Lake, Colfax County; 

 Chloride), probably in Arizona (Mogollon Mountains), central Utah 

 (Thistle Valley, Fairfield), northern Nevada (Truckee Valley, Washoe 

 Lake), and central Oregon (Burns). 



The breeding range extends north to central British Columbia (Lac 

 la Hache, 158-Mile House) ; but the bird is rare or accidental in Alaska 

 (Cape Romanzoff), Alberta (Edmonton), and on Great Slave Lake. 

 Much remains to be learned in regard to the nesting of the blue- 

 winged teal in the West Indies and Central America. It breeds in 

 Jamaica and in the Lesser Antilles, quite probably also in Honduras 

 and in western Mexico (Mazatlan), near the southern end of Lower 

 California, 



