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THE FERRUGINOUS DUCK. 



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This species— also called the White-eyed Duck, from the colour 

 of its irides — is an irregular visitor, principally in winter and spring. 

 About twenty examples have been obtained in Norfolk, a few in 

 Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Yorkshire, and along the Trent valley up 

 to Nottinghamshire; and Northumberland, Cumberland and Lan- 

 cashire are each credited with one. Those exposed for sale in the 

 London markets are open to the suspicion of having been brought 

 from Holland (whence also live birds are sometimes sent) ; but 

 four have been killed near Oxford, and one each in Dorset and 

 Devon ; while a remarkably tame bird was observed on a pond in 

 Radnorshire during the latter part of 1858 and up to March 1859. 

 In Scotland this Duck has been obtained near Edinburgh on two 

 occasions in winter ; and in Ireland four occurrences have been 

 noted froni the east and north-east coasts. 



The Ferruginous Duck is not known to breed to the north of 

 Holland, Schleswig-Holstein, the German side of the Baltic, or 

 Moscow in Russia ; but in Poland, Hungary, and Slavonia it is very 

 abundant from April to autumn, and it is a resident of general 

 distribution in the southern portions of Europe, from Spain to the 

 Volga. It visits the Canaries, nests in North Africa, and is found in 

 large flocks on the lakes of Egypt in winter. In the temperate and 



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