30 NOBTH AMERICAN DUCES, GEESE, AND SWANs. 
Wall migration. The month of September, especially the latter half. 
Bees the arrival of the first baldpates over most of the district between 
the breeding grounds and Cuba and Louisiana; but these are only the 
advance scouts; the main body appears in the northern United States 
early in October, and reaches the middle Atlantic States about the 
middle of that month. Date- of arrival are: Middletown, \{. I.. Sep- 
tember -Jo. L889; Hast Hartford, Conn., September 29, 1888; Beaver, 
Pa., A.ugust 30, L890. Stragglers have been -ecu in Massachusetts 
and in northern Pennsylvania as late as the first week in December. 
but most leave at least a month earlier. The average date at which 
the last were -ecu at Ottawa. Ontario, is October 27, latest November 
6, L890; at Keokuk. Iowa. November 18, latest November L8, L892. 
The last was seen at Montreal September 20, 18 ( .>7; Edmonton, 
Alberta, November 6, l s !»'ii Kowak River, Alaska. September 20, 
1898; St. Michael, Alaska, October 1. 
Nettion crecca (Linn.). European Teal. 
This is a widely distributed Old World species, accidental in the 
Western Hemisphere. It has been taken in Greenland, Labrador, 
Nova Scotia. Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Long Island, near 
Washington, I). C, California, and Alaska. The dates of capture 
range through every month of the year, except January, August, and 
October; those for the United States from November to April. 
Nettion carolinense (Gmel.). Green-winged Teal. 
Breeding range. — A few probably have bred in the mountains of 
north central Pennsylvania (Lycoming Count}'), and it has been 
reported as nesting near Buffalo, N. V. The regular breeding range 
extends from New Brunswick, through northeastern Quebec and New- 
foundland, to Qngava Bay, Labrador, latitude 58 . It Is a common 
migrant in Ontario, and hence 4 undoubtedly breeds in the northern 
part. Jt has been recorded as a rare breeder in southern Ontario 
(Toronto, Point aux Pins. Oshawa, Gravenhurst). The southern 
boundary of the breeding range to the westward is found in [llinois 
(Rockford, Lacon, Fernwood), in Michigan (Neebish Island), Wiscon- 
sin (Lake Koshkonong. formerly), Minnesota (Faribault, Heron Lake). 
Nebraska (Dewey Lake, Badger, Valentine), Colorado (Beloit, San 
Luis Valley), New Mexico (San Miguel County), Utah (Salt Lake). 
Nevada (Washoe Lake). Oregon (Fori Klamath). The range extends 
north to the edge of the Barren Grounds from near Fort Churchill, 
Hudson Bay, to Fori Anderson, to Kotzebue Sound, and nearly to 
Point Barrow. It breeds throughout the Aleutian Chain to the Near 
Islands. It is rare as a breeder everywhere in the I 'ni ted States east 
of the Rocky Mountains, and the main breeding grounds are in west 
central Canada from Manitoba to Lake Athabasca. It has w r andercd 
