68 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
RaneGEe.— Northern part of Old World. Breeds in northern 
Europe and Asia; occurs in migration east to Commander Islands; 
winters south to Japan, China, northern India, and coasts of the 
Mediterranean; accidental in northern North America.] 
SuspraMity ANATINAS. River Ducks. 
Genus ANAS LINN 2uvs. 
Anas Linnus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 122. Type, by subs. desig., 
Anas boschas LiInN&=uS = A. platyrhynchos LInN&uS (Lesson, 1828). 
Anas platyrhynchos Linnaus. Mallard. [132.] 
Anas platyrhynchos Linnus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 125. (Sweden.) 
Rance.— Northern Hemisphere. In North America breeds from 
Pribilof Islands, northwestern Alaska, northern Mackenzie, central 
Keewatin, and Greenland south to Lower California, southern New 
Mexico, southern Kansas, central Missouri, southern Indiana, and 
Maryland (rarely); winters from the Aleutian Islands, central Alaska, 
central Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, southern Wisconsin, northern 
Indiana, Ohio, Maryland, and Nova Scotia (rarely) south to Mexico, 
the Lesser Antilles, and Panama; casual] in Bermuda and Hawaii. 
Anas rabripes Brewster. Black Duck. [133.] 
Anas obscura rubripes BrEwsTER, Auk, XIX, April, 1902, 184. (New 
Hampshire shore of Lake Umbagog.) 
RanGce.— Eastern North America. Breeds from central Keewatin 
and northern Ungava south to northern Wisconsin, northern Indiana, 
and southern Maryland; winters from Nova Scotia south to southern 
Louisiana and Colorado; west in migration to Nebraska and central 
Kansas; casual in Bermuda; accidental in Jamaica. 
Anas fulvigula Ripaway. 
RanGeE.— Florida and the Gulf coast to Texas. 
