AMEEICAN BLUE-WINGED TEAL. 



ANAS DISCORS, Linn. 



Anas discors, Linn. S. N. i. p. 205. 



Querquedula discors, Baird, Brewer, Ridgway, "Water- 

 Birds of N. Am. i. p. 531. 



One occurrence. Mr. W. G. Gibson, writing from 

 Dumfries in 1858, says ('Naturalist,' viii. p. 168), "a 

 specimen of the Blue-winged Teal was shot here a few 

 weeks ago." This bird, a male, passed into the 

 possession of Sir William Jardine, and with the rest of 

 his collection of British birds was acquired by the 

 Edinburgh Museum, where it now is. 



This Teal is common in North America, chiefly to the 

 eastward of the Rocky Mountains. The winter is 

 passed in Mexico, Central America, and the West 

 Indian Islands, some birds at that season reaching as far 

 south as Peru. [O. S.] 



