34 NORTH AMERICAN DUCKS, GEESE, AND SWANS. 
(earliest. August is. ISM!)); they became common on the average Sep- 
tember 23, though in the fall of 18S7 they were already numerous 
September LO. The average date of arrival in central Kansas i- Sep- 
tember 12. and in southern Mississippi, September 1(>. 
The average date at which the last was seen at Montreal was Sep- 
tember 25; latest, September 29, 1888; the last one seen on Prince 
Edward Island in this same year was October 8; Lewiston, Me.. 
November 7, 1901; Cape May, N. J., December 5, L884. 
The average date for eight years when the last one was seen at 
Ottawa, Ontario, is October 13 (latest, October 27, 1894); Chicago, 111., 
October IS (latest, October 22, L904); southern Iowa. October 22 (latest, 
November 4, 1885); central South Dakota, October 7; eastern Nebraska. 
November 11; central Missouri. November 6 (latest, November L3, L902). 
The last one seen in 1896 at Aweme, Manitoba, was on October 30. 
During the fall migration the blue-winged teal is fairly common on 
the Bermudas, but it rarely occurs there in spring. 
Querquedula cyanoptera (Vieill.). Cinnamon Teal. 
Breeding range. — The breeding range of the cinnamon teal differs 
essentially from that of almost every other duck in the Western Hemi- 
sphere. It consists of a large area north of the equator and a similar 
district south of the equator, and these two homes are separated by a 
strip about 2,000 miles wide, in which the species is practically unknown. 
In North America the breeding range extends north to southe n 
British Columbia (Lac la Hache) and southwestern Alberta; east to 
eastern Wyoming (Lake Como, Cheyenne), western Kansas (Fort 
Wallace, Meade County); south to northern Lower California (La 
Grulla, San Rafael Valley, and possibty San Jose del Cabo), northern 
Mexico (Chihuahua City), southern New Mexico (Carlsbad), and south- 
western Texas (Marathon, Rock Spring). 
The cinnamon teal occurs sparingly in migration as far east as Hous- 
ton, Tex., and Omaha, Nebr. It has been noted as accidental at Oak 
Lake, Manitoba; Big Stone Lake, Minnesota; Lake Koshkonong, 
Wisconsin; Licking County Reservoir, Ohio; Seneca River and Seneca 
Lake, New York; Lake Pontchartrain, Lake Cattawatchie, St. Malo, 
and Opelousas, Louisiana; Mount Pleasant, S. C. ; Lake Iamonia and 
Key West, Florida. 
Throughout this breeding area the eggs are deposited during May 
and June. About six months later the South American colony breeds. 
The breeding range includes the pampas of Argentina as far north as 
Buenos Aires, while in the Andes it extends north to central Peru 
(Santa Luzia). Southward the species breeds as far as the Falkland 
islands and the Straits of Magellan. These South American breeders, 
of course, are not the same 4 birds which nest in North America, for 
it is true, without exception, that no bird which breeds north of the 
equator breeds also in the Southern Hemisphere. 
