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BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



with white ; primaries, greyish-brown ; abdomen and flanks, 

 white tinged with grey, and finely vermiculated with dusky ; 

 irides, dark brown; bill, yellowish; legs and feet, orange. 

 Length, about twenty-four inches. The female has the 

 general colouration brown and bufl" of various shades. 



pocbarb. 



The Pochard {^Fuligula ferina^ Linnaeus) is a fairly common 

 winter visitor to the British Isles, and it also inhabits the 

 Palearctic Region, but does not occur in the extreme North 

 and East. The adult male in summer dress has the head 

 and upper neck rich chestnut ; breast and upper portion 

 of back, brownish-black ; mantle and breast, white, tinged 



