

COMMON DUCK, or MALLARD. 



(Anas dotncstica, Richard, and Swains. North. Zool. ii. p. 442. 

 Anas boschas, Linn. Lath. Ind. sp. 49. Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 

 835. Wilson, viii. p. 112. pi. 70. fig. 7. [male.] Bonap. Synops. 

 No. 323. The Mallard, Penn. Arct. Zool ii. No. 494. Le Canard 

 Sauvage, Buff. Ois. ix. p. 115. tab. 7 and 8. Pi. Enlum. 776. and 

 777. Boschas major, Ray. Syn. A. 1, 150,1. Phil. Museum, No. 

 2864.) 



Sp. Charact, — Speculum purple with green reflections, bounded 

 with black and white ; rump blackish ; tail of 16 feathers. — Male, 

 with the head and neck green ; a white collar on the neck ; the 

 middle tail coverts recurved. Female and young wholly brownish, 

 varied with yellowish and blackish. 



The Mallard, or oriorinal of our domestic Duck, like so 

 many other species, is common to most parts of the north- 

 ern hemisphere. As a bird of passage, in spring and 

 autumn, it is seen in every part of the United States, and 



