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ANAS BOSCHAS. COMMON DUCK. 



WILD DUCK. MALLARD. 



Fia. 61. 



Anas Boschaa. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 205. 



Anas Boschas. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 850. 



Canard sauvage. Anas Boschas. Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 11. 835. 



Wild Duck. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. 



Common Wild Duck. Anas Boschas. Selby, lUustr. II. 305. 



Anas Boschas. Mallard. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. Anim. 233. 



Anas Boschas. Bonap. Comp. List, 56. 



Male with the hill reddish-yelloio, tinged with green; the 

 feet orange; head and upper part of the nech glossy deep 

 green; a narrow xohite collar ; the loioer part of the neck and 

 a portion of the hr east dark hroivnish-chestmit ; lower parts 

 greyish-tvhite, very minutely undulated loith grey ; fore part 

 of the hack hrown; scapulars grey and hrown, minutely undu- 

 lated; hind part of the hack hlack; wings hroionish-grey ; 

 specidum hluish-green and purple, margined hef ore and hehind 

 loith hlack and white; tail-feathers twenty, hrownish-grey , 

 hroadly edged loith white, the four medial recurved, com- 



