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ANATIDE. 



NATATORES. 



ANATID/E. 



THE FERRUGINOUS DUCK, 

 AND White-eyed Duck. 



Anas ferriiuiriea^ Red Duck, Penn. Biit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 272. 



,, ,, Fervug^inous Duck, Mont. Ornilh. Diet, and Suppt. 



,, nyroca, Castuneous ,, Bkwick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 332. 

 Nyroca lettcopthalmos, White-ei^ed ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 121. 



Fiiligiila nyrpcn, Nyroca Fuchavd, Seley, Brit. Ornitli. vol. ii. p. 354. 

 ,, ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 242. 



,, ,, White-eyed Duck, Goild, Birds of Europe, pt. v. 



Anas leucopthalnios, Canard a iris blanc, Te.mm. Man. d'Ornith, vol. ii. p. 876. 



Though somewhat in colour resembling the Pochard or 

 Dun-bird last described, the Ferruginous Duck is at once dis- 

 tinguished from it by its smaller size, its dark brown back, 

 and by the ends of its secondary quill-feathers being white ; 

 forming a sinsrle white bar on the wino- at all aares. Like the 

 Pochard, the Ferruginous Duck is a winter visiter to this 

 country, and but few arc annually taken. It has been killed 

 ill Cambridgeshire and in Norfolk, and the flesh is reported 



