Birds of the Adirondack Region. 
C. BuMerriam. 
154. Anas boscas, Linn. Mallard. —A rare migrant. 
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Notes.Shelter Island, N.Y. 
W. W. Worthington. 
a fine male Mallard was 
1 ^o^ght me to be mounted, which was shot near Long 
Beach. 
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Capture of a Pair of Wild Hybrid Ducks (Mallard + Muscovy) on 
Long Island.—Mr. G. C. Morris, of Sag Harbor, New York, had at the 
annual exhibition of the New York Fanciers’ Club, held in .New York 
City, February 3 to 10, 1886, a pair of ‘strange Ducks’ which no one had 
been able to name. My attention was directed to them by Mr. Morris, 
who^ called upon me at the American Museum of Natural History in 
relation to them. From the clear account of them he was able to give 
me, I had no difficulty in deciding as to their character, and an examina¬ 
tion of the birds themselves the following day confirmed my identifica¬ 
tion of them. Unlike most previous examples that have been reported 
of this interesting cross, they showed no tendency to albinism, there 
being no abnormal white markings, but presented just the combination of 
features one would look for in a cross between a wild Mallard and a 
Muscovy unchanged by domestication. The birds, both male and female, 
were in perfect plumage, exceedingly beautiful, and presented in nearly 
equal degree the characteristics of the two species. 
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4. Anas boschas + obscura. Hybrid. —March 17, 1888, Andrew Chi¬ 
chester, a professional South Bay gunner and bayman, sent to me from 
Amityville, Suffolk Co., the above-indicated very beautiful hybrid. His 
letter accompanying it I give in full : “I send you a Duck different from 
anything I ever saw in my experience as a gunner. It looks to me like a 
mongrel, half Mallard and half Black Duck. It was in a flock of five, I 
think. They came in wide, so I only shot at the one, and I did not see 
hat it was different from a common Black Duck until I picked it up, so I 
cannot tell whether the remainder of the flock were similar to it or not.” 
Mr. F. M. Chapman has kindly prepared the following description of this 
hybrid for record. “In the male hybrid between boschas and obscura 
there is, on the whole, a fairly equal division of the characters of both 
parents; the crown, hind-neck, and nape areas in boschas; the sides of 
the head, the throat, and neck resemble more those of obscura , but there 
is a wash of green on the first named region, and the chin is blackish. 
The lesser and median wing-coverts and tertials are similar to those of 
boschas , while the speculum is that of obscura , with the terminal border 
of white more as in boschas. The upper and lower tail-coverts resemble 
those of boschas , but the tail differs very slightly from that of obscura. 
Below the ground work is nearly as in obscura , but there is a suffusion of 
chestnut over the entire breast.” 
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