AMERICAN BLUE-WINGED TEAL.
ANAS D1SC0RS, Linn.
Anas discors, Linn. S. N. i. p. 205.
Querquedula discors, Baird, Brewer, If Ridgway, Water-
Birds of N. Am. i. p. 531.
One occurrence. Mr. W. G. Gibson, writing from
Dumfries in 1858, says (‘Naturalist,’ viii. p. 168), “ a
specimen of the Blue-winged Teal was shot here a few
weeks ago.” This bird, a male, passed into the
possession of Sir William Jardine, and with the rest of
his collection of British birds was acquired by the
Edinburgh Museum, where it now is.
This Teal is common in North America, chiefly to the
eastward of the Rocky Mountains. The winter is
passed in Mexico, Central America, and the West
Indian Islands, some birds at that season reaching as far
south as Peru. [®-
AMERICAN B LU E -W IN G E D TEAL.
