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GADWALL. 



GADWALL DUCK. COMMON GADWALL. 

 PLATE CXC. FIG. II. 



Anas strepera, . . Pennant. Montagu. Bewick. 



Chauliodus strepera, . . Selbt. Jenyns. 



The nest of the Gadwall is placed among reeds, sedge, 

 rushes, or other aquatic herbage, such as vegetates by 

 the sides of pools, meres, and lakes, and in marshy 

 places. 



The eggs are from five to seven or eight, or, Selby 

 says, ten or twelve in number. They are of a uniform 

 buff white colour. 



The engraving is from an egg laid in the garden of 

 the Zoological Society. The birds bred there in the 

 year 1839, and again in 1841, and in 1853 or 1854. 



