of the District of Montreal, 415 



A. bosckas. Common Mallard. 



A. domestka of Richardson and Swainson ! ! 



Boschas major of Ray ! 



Anas boschas. Baird ! 



v.s.p. Bill livid, the nail yellow (Bill wax yellow, Nnttall !) ; 

 irides reddish brown ; legs and feet orange ; eggs 10 to 18 bluish 

 white. 



Dorsal aspect. Head and neck rich glossy emerald green ; 

 collar white, interrupted on the nape of neck ; interscapulary re- 

 gion light chesnut brown with paler edgings ; shoulders and sca- 

 pulars whitish grey, elegantly undulated with clove brown ; the 

 exterior row tinted with rich chesnut ; small wing coverts greyish 

 brown, the outermost ones margined with white ; speculum rich 

 glossy purple, with a deep sea green iridescence, and bounded 

 above and below with jet black and white ; rump and tail covert?, 

 black, with a deep emerald green iridiscence ; the two central tail 

 coverts recurved ; tail composed of 16 feathers, brown in the 

 centre along the shafts, broadly margined with white ; the 

 feathers acuminate ; primaiy quills pure brown. 



Ventral aspect. Chin and throat to the breast like the head ; 

 breast dark chesnut; wing linings and axillaries white; belly 

 sides and tianks greyish white, finely undulated with clove brown ; 

 tail coverts velvet black. 



2nd primary longest ; length 23j- inches ; alar expanse 34 in- 

 ches ; length of bill from frontal feathers, 2 inches and two lines ; 

 length of tarsus, middle toe and nail together, 4 inches. 



" The female and young are wholly brownish, varied with yel- 

 lowish and bluish." 



A. clypeata. Shoveller. 



A. rubens of Gmel. ! var. young male ! 



Spatula clypeata. Baird ! 

 v.s.p. Bill livid black ; legs and feet orange ; irides reddish 

 brown (yellow?) eggs 12 to 14, pale greenish yellow. 



Dorsal aspect. Space in front of the orbits, frontlet and me- 

 dial line to the interscapulary region, and interscapulary region 

 umber brown, tinted with green on the head and margined with 

 wood brown in the latter situation ; cheeks and sides of the neck, 

 dusky emerald green; lower half of the neck, short scapulars and 

 sides of the rump, white ; long scapulars, with the outer vane pale 

 blue, and the inner vane white, margined with jet black, tinted 



