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ANATID/K, 



NATATORES. 



ANATID.i:. 



THE GADWALL. 



Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 275. 



Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol.ii. p. 364. 



Flem. Brit. An. p. 124. 



Seley, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 301. 



Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 231. 



Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. viii. 



Temm. JMan. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 837. 



The Gadwall, or Grey Duck, as the term is intended to 

 imply, is a rare species, occurring sometimes in winter, but 

 more frequently in the spring, rather than at any other season 

 of the year, and then only in very limited numbers. Mon- 

 tagu mentions that during the many years he devoted to 

 observing and collecting British Birds, he was never able 

 to obtain a recent specimen. Examples are, however, occa- 



* Genus Chatdiodus of Swainson, 1831. 



