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Range (Florida and Gulf coast)

Florida and Gulf coast to Louisiana.

Eggs, eight to ten, pale dull buff or pale grayish buff, 2-15 x 1.61 (Ridgw.). This is a common resident species in Florida. Its habits and voice are practically the same as those of the Black Duck RIVER DUCKS. 135. Anas strepera Linn. GADWALL; GRAY DUCK. Ad. 8.- Top of the head streaked with rufous-brown and black; sides of the head and the head and neck pale buffy, thickly streaked or spotted with black; breast and neck all and neck all around black, each feather with a border and an internal ring of white, giving white, giving the plumage a beautifully scaled appearance; belly white or grayish ; rump, upper and under tail-coverts black; lesser wing-coverts chestnut. Ad. 0+ - . Ad..- Head and throat as in the male; back fuscous margined with buffy; breast buffy; breast and sides ochraceous buffy, thickly spotted with blackish; belly and under tail-coverts white, more or less thickly spotted with blackish; little or no ; little or no chestnut on wing-coverts; speculum ashy gray and white; axillars and under and under wing-coverts pure white. L., 19.50; W., 10.40; Tar., 1.55; B., 1.70.