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Supramity ANATINE. River Ducks. 
Ducks having hind toe without membranous lobe 
or flap. 
Genus ANAS Linn. 
(Female.) (Male.) 
ANAS BOSCHAS. Zinn. 
Mallard. 
Adult male. Head and neck dark green with a white ring on the neck; under parts whitish 
or ashy white; breast is rich chestnut brown; under tail coverts black; upper tail coverts are 
also black with central feathers elongated and curved upwards; speculum purple bordered 
with black and white ; feet orange red. 
Adult female; Speculum purple bordered with black and white ; head brownish buff ; belly 
buffy brown, usually mottled ; feet are red. 
Length, 23; Wing, 10.50; Bill, 2.20. 
This species inhabits the northern part of the Northern Hemisphere. It 
breeds far northward and ranges in winter to the West Indies and Central 
America and is not uncommonin Northern Florida. I have killed a num- 
