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TUFTED DUCK. 



TUFTED POCHARD. 



PLATE CXCVII. FIG. 1. 



Anas faligida, . . . Pennant. Montagu. 

 Fuligula cristata, . . . Selby. Jenyns. 

 Nyroca fuligula. . . . Fleming. 



These birds breed along the stony shores of the sides 

 of inland waters, among the cover of vegetation, more 

 or less thick, with which they are usually bordered. 



The receptacle for the eggs, for it can hardly be 

 called a nest, is composed of stalks and grasses. 



The eggs vary in number from eight to ten. They 

 are of a pale buff colour, with a tinge of green. 



The male bird leaves the female after she has begun 

 to sit. 



This species, as Frederick Bond, Esq. has informed 

 me, paired with the Ferruginous Duck, as I have 

 mentioned in the account of the latter, in the year 

 1853 or 1854, in the gardens of the Zoological Society. 



