340 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
prove that occasionally the Green-winged Teal (Q. carolinensis) 
breeds in North Iceland. 
The breeding of this bird in North Iceland is a matter of. 
great importance to ornithologists generally, not only as being a 
first record for Europe, but as strengthening the position of the 
bird on the British List; and as there is a regular line of 
migration for American birds to Iceland, it is not surprising 
that this bird should occasionally join the streams of other ducks 
to this island, and on the return migration accidentally wander 

Photo. F. Coburn. 
BLUE-WINGED TEAL (Querquedula discors). Adult female, autumn. 
eastwards instead of westwards, and so, at very rare intervals, 
reach our shores. 
As I cannot find a really satisfactory description of the 
female (. discors, it may be useful to give one here; also an 
illustration of one of my British Columbian specimens, an adult 
female shot in September, 1904, showing that the white bar 
across the wing is so conspicuous that it could not be mistaken 
for any other duck :— 
Top of head: forehead streaked with dirty white, crown and 
nape SOB, blackish, crown minutely freckled on margins of 
