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FERRUGINOUS DUCK. 



WIIITE-EYED DUCK. RED DUCK. CASTANEOUS DUCK. 



PLATE CXCVI. 



FIG. 



Anas ferruginea, 

 Fuligula nyroca, . 

 Nyroca leucopthalma. 



Penxant. Montagu. 

 Selby. Jenyns. 

 Fleming. 



This Duck, like the others of its kindred, builds its 

 nest near rivers, ponds, and marshes. The male bird 

 leaves the female soon after she has begun to sit. The 

 nest is well supplied with down from the breast of the 

 parent mother, as a lining. 



The eggs of this species are white, with a slight 

 tinge of green, and nine or ten in number. They 

 are laid by the beginning of June, and are hatched in 

 twenty-two or twenty-three days. 



As Frederick Bond, Esq. has informed me, the 

 Ferruginous Duck bred in the year 1854, in the gardens 

 of the Zoological Society, London; and in that or the 

 preceding year also with the Tufted Duck. 



