. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . with white, spec-ulum greenish. Young : belly white, wing without green. Length : , wing , bill Distribution. — North America, but chiefly east of Rocky Mountains ; inwinter south to Ecuador. Nest. — On dry ground, or in grass or reeds in marshes ; made of grassand lined with feathers. Eggs: 8 to 12, pale buffy. The blue-winged teal is one of the commonest ducks throughoutthe middle portion of North America, but towards the west
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . with white, spec-ulum greenish. Young : belly white, wing without green. Length : , wing , bill Distribution. — North America, but chiefly east of Rocky Mountains ; inwinter south to Ecuador. Nest. — On dry ground, or in grass or reeds in marshes ; made of grassand lined with feathers. Eggs: 8 to 12, pale buffy. The blue-winged teal is one of the commonest ducks throughoutthe middle portion of North America, but towards the west coast itbecomes scarce, its place being filled by the more abundant cinna-mon teal. It breeds through most of its United States and northernrange and migrates early, before the really cold weather. By prefer-ence it inhabits the marshes and grass-fringed ponds, keeping out ofsight when it can; but during migration, like many other ducks,it depends for safety on a wide expanse of open water. Vernon Bailey. 141. Querquedula cyanoptera (Fte«7/.). Cinnamon male. — Head, neck, breast, and sides bright cinnamon brown,. DUCKS, GEESE, AND SWANS 53 fading- to dull brown on belly and becoming- blackish on chin and crown; back dusky, shoulders spotted and barred with dusky and brown ; wing with lesser coverts light blue, middle coverts tipped with white, speculum g-reen, tertials broadly striped with blue, greenish black, and rich buff. Adult female: crown dusky, rest of head and neck finely specked and streaked with dusky on butfy ground ; rest of upper parts dusky scalloped with buff; wing with large blue patch ; under parts brownish, mottled with dusky. Young: like female. but more streaked below. Length: , wing , bill l t)5- Remarks. — The iQvaale cuanoptera ^. „^ ^. ^ , differs from the female disajrs in ^^-^^- Camon Teal. darker coloration, with the breast browner, and more spotted. Distribution. — From southern Canada and the wester
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