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FIG. 4. MALLARDS. 



*5I. Anas obscura Gmel. BLACK DUCK. (133.) Breeds from 

 New Jersey to Labrador and winters from Massachusetts south- 

 ward. It formerly nested in this vicinity, but now is found chiefly 

 as a migrant, and less commonly in the winter. It still nests at 

 some points on the Jersey coast, and in a few localities on Long 

 Island (Dutcher, MS.). (See Group, main floor, opposite Case F.) 



52. Anas strepera Linn. GADWALL. (135.) Northern 

 Hemisphere ; in America more common in the interior, breeding 

 locally from Kansas northward. It is found only as a very rare 

 migrant in this vicinity. 



53. Anas penelope Linn. EUROPEAN WIDGEON. (136.) 

 An Old World species which occurs rarely on our coasts. It has 

 been taken at Leonia, New Jersey (Chapman, Auk, VI, 1889, p. 302). 



54. Anasamericana Gmel. BALDPATE ; AMERICAN WIDGEON. 

 (137.) Breeds in the interior, from Minnesota northward ; not 

 common on the Atlantic coast except from Virginia southward in 

 winter. In this vicinity it is an irregular transient visitant. 



55. Anas crecca Linn. EUROPEAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL. 

 (138.) An Old World species of rare occurrence on otrr coasts. 

 It is recorded from Trenton, N. J. (Abbott, Geology of New Jersey, 

 1868, p. 792), and Hartford, Conn. (Treat, Auk, VIII, 1891, p. 112). 



