THE MALLARD. 
Anas Boschas. 
THE AMERICAN WIDGEON. 
Anas Americana. 
Bors these beautiful ducks, perhaps, with the excep- 
tion of the lovely Summer Duck, or Wood Duck, Anas 
Sponsa, the most beautiful of all the tribe, are along the 
seaboard of the Northern States somewhat rare of 
occurrence, being for the most part’ fresh-water species, 
and when driven by stress of weather, and the freezing 
over of the inland lakes and rivers which they frequent, 
repairing to the estuaries and land-locked lagoons of the 
Southern coasts and rivers, as well as to the tepid pools 
and warm sources of Florida, the Carolinas, Georgia, 
Alabama and Louisiana, in all of which states they 
swarm during the summer months. 
On many of the inland streams and pools of New 
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the Far West in 
general, including all the bays, shallows and tributaries 
of the Great Lakes, as well as all the lovely smaller 
lakes of New York, especially where the wild-rice, or 
