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MALLARD. 



Class II. 



17. Mal- 

 lard. 



Anas Boschas. A. cinerea, rec- 



tricibus intermediis (maris) 

 recurvatis, rostro recto tor- 

 que alba. Lath. Lid. orn. 

 850. id. Syn. vi. 489- id. 

 Sup. ii. 351. 



Les Canards et les Canes. Be- 

 lon av. 160. 



Anas domestica. Gesner av. 

 113,96. 



Anas fera torquata minor. 

 Ald7-. av. iii. 83, 85- 



Common wild Duck and Mal- 

 lard. Common tame Duck. 

 Wil. orn. 371, 380. 



Rail Syn. av. 145, 150. 



Le Canard domestique, le Ca- 

 nard sau\'age JBrisson av. 

 vi. 308, 318. Hist, d^ois.ix. 

 115. PL Enl. 776, 777. 



Einheimische ent. Stock ent. 



Kram. 341. 

 Anitra, Anitra salvatica, Ci- 



sone. Zinan. 105, 106. 

 Anas boschas. Anas domes- 

 tica. Gm. Lin. 538. 

 Gras-and, Blanacke. Faun. 



Suec. sp. 131. 

 Fera, Norvegis Blaaehals v. 



Grses-And, aliis Stok-And. 



Danis Vild-And. Brunnich, 



87. 

 Domestica, Danis Tarn- And. 



Hid. 88. 

 Wilde Ente. Frisch, il. 158. 



Jcemina. 15Q. 

 Ratza. Scopoli, No. 77. 

 Br. Zool. 155. Arct. Zool. ii. 



287- 



Descrip- X HE mallard usually weighs two pounds and 

 an half : the length is twenty-three inches ; the 

 breadth thirty-five. The bill is of a yellowish 

 green ; the head and neck are of a deep and 

 shining green ; more than half round the lower 

 part of the neck is an incomplete circle of 

 white ; the upper part of the breast is of a 

 purplish red, and the beginning of the back of 

 the same color ; the breast and belly of a pale 

 grey, marked with transverse speckled lines of 



