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STELLER’S WESTERN DUCK. 
WESTERN POCHARD. WESTERN DUCK. 
Anas dispar, TEMMINCK. 
Fuligula dispar, SELBY, JENYNS,. 
Polysticta Steileri, Ey1on 
4inas—A Duck. Dispar—Different.. 
Turis Duck, first described by Steller, is a native of the 
north of Europe, Asia, and America. <A few have been killed 
in Sweden and Denmark, as also in Germany. In the second- 
mentioned continent it is found in Siberia and Kamtschatka, 
and others of the boreal regions. 
In Yorkshire one of these birds was shot at Filey, August 
15th., 1845. In Norfolk, one, a male, at Caisted, near 
Yarmouth, on the 10th. of February, 1880. 
The places they inhabit are rocky coasts and the mouths 
of rivers, belonging, as they do, to the class of those 
kindred species which ‘in aquis degunt.’ 
They are said to assemble in flocks, and the male and 
female to keep permanently together. 
They fly with much ease and rapidity, and also swim and 
dive well. 
Their food is made up of the small fry of fish, sea-insects 
and their larve. 
This species breeds, it is said, on high and steep rocks. 
This is a bird of striking and handsome appearance. Male; 
length, one foot seven inches; bill, brownish black, the tip 
yellow; upon the forehead and between the upper mandible 
and the eye is a pale green spot. From the base of the 
lower mandible a blackish brown streak goes down to or 
nearly to a broad collar of the same colour, which encircles 
the neck and joins that of the back. Iris, pale brown; round 
