20 THE BIRDS 
FAMILY ANATIDZE.—DUCKS, GEESE, AND 
SWANS. 
SUBFAMILY ANATIN/E.—RIVER DUCKS. 
GENUS ANAS. 
[132]. Anes platyrhynchos (Linneus).  Jfallard. 
[Gray Mallard]. 
Rayce.—Northern Hemisphere. In North America 
breeds from Fribilof Islands, northwestern Alaska, 
northern MacKenzie, central Keewatin, and Greenland, 
south to Lower California, southern New Mexico, southern 
Kansas, central Missouri, southern Indiana, Maryland 
(rarely), and southeastern Virginia; winters from the 
Aleutian Islands, central Alaska, ceutral Montana, Wyom- 
ing, Nebraska, southern Wisconsin, northern Indiana, 
Ohio, Maryland, and Nova Scotia (rarely), south to 
Mexico, the Lesser Antilles, and Panama; casual in 
Bermuda and Hawaii. 
This species, like the following, should have its breeding 
range extended in the A. O. U. check list southward to 
Virginia, for it not onlv breeds readily in captivity both on 
the Eastern Shore, and on my place at Warwick County, 
but it breeds sparingly in its wild state in numerous creeks 
emptving into the upper James River. I would not be 
surprised if it did not breed also in the upper end of Back 
Bay, though as yet I have no positive evidence of its doing 
so. Probably it is the best-known wild duck by the public 
at large, found abundantly in the markets during the 
