was situated in a tall and isolated tussock of timothy surrounded
by short clover, 20 feet from the water in a cultivated field.

Cinnamon Teal--Anas cyanoptera Vieillot.

A total of nine was observed in the Quesnel and Baker Creek
region under the following circumstances, viz.; at dpe thorseus(oraic Rie
on May 17, a mated pair slipped into the water from where it had
stood on the edge of the muskeg shore then took wing, passed me at
a distance of about 20 feet, and dropped to the water 30 yards away.
On May 31 two males were flushed from a sedge marsh on Puntataenkut
Creek. At Dragon Lake, on June 9, a trio of one male and two
females, and later a male and female together, were flushed from
lakeshore marshes

Baldpate--Mareca americana (Gmelin).

Scarce in the Baker Creek and Quesnel regions, where only two
mated pairs were recorded, and relatively more common at Francois
Lake and in certain parts of the Bulkley Valley. It was not ob-
served elsewhere. In numerical status it probably is next to the
mallard. Actually more young baldpate than young mallard were
observed, but this probably was due to the fact that the habits of
the former are much less secretive and broods of all ages commonly
frequent open water.

The average number of young in six broods counted between July
14 and July 17 was 7.5. Later the following were counted: one brood
of 10 near Smithers, July 17; one brood of 4 on Keefe Lake, August 4;
one brood of 5 on Stanyer Lake, August 5; one brood of Os ahoun
females with 10 young, and a band of 70 composed chiefly of young, on
Shafer Lake, August 7. The latter together with some 30 mallards
were crowded on a small muddy beach and as I drew close to them the
mallards took flight and the baldpates swam out on the lake through
a surface foliation of pondweeds.

The behaviour of three females with broods, under observation
at Lacroix Lake. July 14, differed in some degree from the normal
which is to leave the brood, alight close to the observer and pers
form various actions--such as beating the water with the wings, and
rushing over the surface. When discovered each of these females was
leading her brood through an open marsh and upon being approached
remained on the water in this cover for several minutes. Bach swam
back and forth, the feathers on the crown erect, and made a constant
excited quacking. Meanwhile the young swam out on the open lake and
not until they had travelled several hundred yards did the female

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