. Our northern and eastern birds : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces; together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs . nty-three inches; wing, eleven; tarsus, one and seventy one-hundredths; commissure of bill, two and fifty one-hundredths inches. The Mallard is found in New England only as a wan-derer, and then only in the western sections in the springand autumn seasons; a few are seen in the wat
. Our northern and eastern birds : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces; together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs . nty-three inches; wing, eleven; tarsus, one and seventy one-hundredths; commissure of bill, two and fifty one-hundredths inches. The Mallard is found in New England only as a wan-derer, and then only in the western sections in the springand autumn seasons; a few are seen in the waters of Lake Champlain, and oc-casionally a smallflock is found in theConnecticut is the originalof the Common Do-mestic Mallard; andits habits are so wellknown that I willgive no bird breeds in all sections of the United States,more abundantly, of course, in the northern than in thesouthern; and less often in the eastern than in the inte-rior and western. In most of the Western States, it isone of the most abundant of water-fowls ; and it breeds inall the meadows and by the ponds and streams throughoutthose sections. The nest is built in a tussock of higli grass,or in a thick clump of weeds. It is composed of pieces ofgrass and weeds, and is lined to the depth of half an inci). THE DUSKY DUCK. 489 with down and other soft material. The eggs are from tento fourteen in number: they are usually ovoidal in shape,and vary in color from dirty yellowish-white to an obscureolivaceous-green. Their dimensions vary from by (Albion, Wis.) to by (Nova Scotia). ANAS OBSCUEA. — Dusky Duck; Black Duck. Anas ohscurn, Gmelin. Syst. Nat., I. (1788) 541. Wils. Am. Orn., VIII. (18H\141. Aud. Om. Biog., IV. (1838) 15. lb., Birds Am., VI. (1843) [boschas) obscura, Nuttall. Man., II. (1834) 392. Description. Bill greenish; feet red; body generally blackish-brown; the feathers obi?;urelymargined ■with reddish-brown; those anteri
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