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Range. — 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.] 



Subfamily ANATIN£. Riveh Ducks. 



Genus ANAS Linn^us. 



Anas LiNN^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 122. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Anas boschas Linn^us = A. platyrhyTwhos Linnjeus (Lesson, 1828). 



Anas platyrh^chos Linn.«;us. Mallard. [132.] 



Anas platyrhynchos Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 125. (Sweden.) 



Range. — 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 rubripes Brewster. Black Duck. [133.] 



Anas obscura rubripes Brewstbb, Auk, XIX, April, 1902, 184. (New 

 Hampshire shore of Lake Umbagog.) 



Range. — 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 Ridgway. 

 Range. — Florida and the Gulf coast to Texas. 



