32 NORTH AMERICAN DUCKS, GEESE, AND SWANS. 
have been found at Edmonton, Alberta, latitude r>4 . May 27, and in 
southern Ontario, latitude 45 . May 22, Downy young were seen in 
the Devils Lake region of North Dakota dune 20. 
/-'/// migration.- -An average date for the reappearance of the green- 
winged tea] at Erie, Pa., 18 September L5 (earliest. September 1. 1894); 
at Alexandria. Va., September 2'.' | earliest. September 22); but it is not 
considered common until early November. Corresponding dates of 
arrival are: Keokuk, Iowa. September 21; central Kansas, September 
l*2\ central Texas. September 22; central California, September 17. 
The hist 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 sveek in October. Tin 4 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 discors (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 
Pacitic slope. It has been recorded as breeding rarely in Rhode 
Island (Sakonnet, 1890), Maine (Calais), New Brunswick (Kings 
County, St. John Count}^), 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, Fort Hays) — 
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 Ilaehe. L58-Mile House): but the birdis rare or accidental in Alaska 
(('ape Roman/oil), Alberta (Edmonton), and on (treat Slave 4 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 (Ma/atlan), near the southern end of Lower 
California. 
