September, 1921 
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in. I stood up, to see better what 
it was, when the little object sprang 
into the air. With a shot which was 
more luck than good management I 
dropped it into the water and pushed 
out in the boat — to find that I had bag- 
ged a little, exquisitely colored, male 
green-winged teal, the first of its kind 
I had shot in that locality. 
Like the blue-wing, the green-wing 
does not like cold, rough weather. They 
arrive in our Northern States very 
early in the fall and stay as long as 
the weather remains mild. They may 
be seen then in densely massed flocks 
sunning themselves on the sand bars, 
preening their feathers or sleeping in 
the warmth of mid-day. When the 
first frost pinches, they hurry south- 
ward toward winter feeding grounds. 
The sportsman often enjoys fine 
weather when shooting the teal. The 
days are often bright and sunny, the 
weather mild, yet with enough of the 
crispness of early fall to be invigorating. 
The beauties of the marsh-land — their 
many bright colors and somber shades — 
are seen at their best in the rich golden 
sunlight and through the haze of In- 
dian Summer. 
The cinnamon teal is found in West- 
ern America from the Columbia River, 
or further north, south to Chili and 
the Faulkland Islands. It ranges east- 
ward to the Mississippi Valley, but is 
more plentiful along the Pacific Coast. 
Male cinnamon teal: Head, neck, 
upper and lower parts chestnut, darkest 
on upper parts ; wing coverts pale blue ; 
wing mirror green with white bar 
above; bill black; legs and feet orange. 
Female: Similar to female blue-winged 
teal but more reddish. 
In the West the cinnamon teal is 
bagged with the green-wing in the 
marshes. I believe, however, that the 
cinnamon teal is nowhere so abundant 
as the green-wing, or as the blue-wing 
is in the East. The cinnamon teal is 
one of the very few varieties of our 
ducks which I have not bagged. 
M UCH that has been said in the pre- 
vious chapters, appearing in past 
numbers of Forest and Stream, 
as to the methods of capture of the 
other ducks applies as well to the teal. 
They are shot over decoys and are 
jumped in the marshes by the sports- 
man moving about in a boat. They 
are also shot on points or fly-ways, as 
are the other ducks. 
The teal, like the other river or fresh- 
water ducks, are expert in hiding in 
the reeds and grasses when wounded. 
The sportsman will do well to take a 
retrieving dog with him when he goes 
to shoot the teal in the dense marshes. 
These dogs, usually the water-spaniels, 
are trained to duck hunting and will 
find and retrieve wounded ducks in the 
thickest rushes which otherwise would 
very often never be recovered. 
A chapter on our teal would not, 
perhaps, be complete unless we include 
a foreign member of the family which 
has been found in the United States. 
This, the European teal, is an occasional 
and accidental visitor to our shores. 
It is very similar to the green-wing. | 
“ They shoot at a paper on a tree, 
thi3 camp is safe enough for mef 
says Mr, Porcupine. 
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