POCHARD, 



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NAT AT ORES. 



A NAT] DM. 



THE POCHARD, 

 OR Dun Bird. 



Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 271. 



Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 369. 



Flem. Brit. An. p. 121. 



Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 347. 



Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 241. 



Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xvii. 



Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 868. 



The Pochard, or Dun-bird, for this species is known by 

 various names, as Red-lieaded Poker, and Red-eyed Poker, 

 from the prevailing colour of the head, and the peculiar 

 colour of the eye, not observed in any other British Duck ; 

 and Dos gris^ or Grey-back, in some parts of North Ame- 

 rica, as we are told by Mr. Audubon ; is a winter visiter to 



