. The birds of New England and adjacent states : containing descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature ... with illustrations of many species of the birds, accurate figures of their nests and eggs . nty-three inches; wing, eleven; tarsus, one and seventy one-hundredths; commissure of bill, two and fifty one-liundredths inches. The Mallard is found in New England only as a wan-derer, and then only in the western sections in tlie springand autumn seasons; a few are seen in the waters of Lake Champlain,
. The birds of New England and adjacent states : containing descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature ... with illustrations of many species of the birds, accurate figures of their nests and eggs . nty-three inches; wing, eleven; tarsus, one and seventy one-hundredths; commissure of bill, two and fifty one-liundredths inches. The Mallard is found in New England only as a wan-derer, and then only in the western sections in tlie 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 thau 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 OBSCUEA. — Dusky Duck; Black Duck. Anas obscura, Gmelin. Syst. Nat., I. (1788) 541. Wils. Am. Orn., VIII. (1814)141. Aud. Orn. 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 obscurelymargined with reddish-brown; those anteriorly with a conceal
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