. The birds of New England and adjacent states : ... arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature ... with illustrations of many species of the birds, accurate figures of their nests and eggs . enty-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 Cham plain, and oc-casionally a smallflock is found in theConnecticut is the original
. The birds of New England and adjacent states : ... arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature ... with illustrations of many species of the birds, accurate figures of their nests and eggs . enty-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 Cham plain, 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 high 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 inch. 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 OBSCURA. — Dusky Duck; Black Duck. Anas obscurn, Gmelin. Syst. Nat., I. (17S8) 541. Wils. Am. Orn., VIII. (18H)141. Ami. Orn. Biog., IV. (1838) 15. lb., Birds Am., VI. (1843) {busckas) obscura, Nuttall. Man., II. (1834) 392. Description. Bill greenish; feet red; body generally blackish-brown; the feathers obscurelymargined with reddish-brown; those anteriorly with a concealed V-shaped mark,more or less visible on the sides of the breast; head and neck brownish-yell
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