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BRITISH BIRDS 

 The Golden-eyed Duck. 



This is a larger bird than the Pochard, weighing about 

 2 pounds. It is black and white in colour, the former 

 washed with metallic tints ; the iris is bright yellow, whence 

 its English name. It does not breed in this country, though 

 occurrino: here in considerable numbers during the late 



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Golden-eyed Ducks. 



autumn and winter — " where peaceful rivers, soft and 

 slow, amid the verdant landscape flow" — according to ]\Ir. 

 Morris, quoting from an old metrical version of the Psalms. 

 The female is rusty-brown in those parts where the male 

 is black, namely, the head, back, and rump. 



