BLACK DUCK 
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brown to yellowish or pale orange. Colors of soft parts much brighter in the male. The female always 
has a dark irregular band on the bill about the nostrils in both forms. 
Geogh.\phic Distribution: Breeding from Hyde and Dare Counties, North Carolina, sparingly 
along coast of Virginia and Maryland up the whole eastern coast, as far as eastern Labrador. Western 
and northern breeding limit not determined, but probably to Lake Erie. Winters from Nova Scotia 
south along entire Atlantie coast to northern Florida and the Gulf Coast, but in this latter region 
not so common as Anas ruhripes rubripes. It is possible that typical examples are confined to a 
breeding area extending along the coast and inland for only 150 to 200 miles. 
Note: This race probably intergrades with the “Red-legged” form all over the central part of the 
range of the Black Duck, and also in Ungava. Typically, it is a race of the Atlantic coast. Its migra- 
tion is early, but some remain along the New England coast all winter, where they are outnumbered 
by individuals of the “Red-legged” race, and by others not easily classified. 
