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and a third, which was then alone, but which the 

 keeper assured him also had a brood. Since then 

 a few broods have been safely reared there annually. 

 The following summer Mr. T. M. Pike found the 

 Pochard breeding near Wareham (Zoologist, 1877, 

 p. 385), where about thirty young birds were hatched 

 out early in June. Pulteney says of this species : 

 " The Pochard is seen up the country in fresh water ; 

 two were killed at Bryanston in 1796, and one at 

 Spettisbury in 1795." In a folio copy of Pennant's 

 " British Birds " in the Bryanston Library there are 

 three entries of the occurrence of the Pochard in the 

 handwriting of the father of Viscount Portman, one 

 shot at Bryanston in 1776, another December i, 

 1805, and a third January i, 1815. Mr. Rogers, a 

 poulterer of Poole, had a hybrid between the Pochard 

 and Wigeon. 



FEKRUGINQUS iftJCK. Fuligula nyroca, Guldenstadt. 



Yarrell, iv. p. 418; Seebuhm, iii. p. 571 ; Fuligula ferruginea, 

 Harting, p. 64; Nyroca ferruginea, Dresser, vi. p. 581; 

 Ibis List, p. 130. 



The Ferruginous Duck, or, as it is sometimes 

 called, the " White-eyed Pochard," has a wide geo- 

 graphical range, extending from Cashmere to Algeria, 

 including Southern Spain and the valley of the 

 Danube. It is an accidental straggler to the British 

 Islands, and of rare occurrence in Dorsetshire, al- 

 though it is possible it may often escape notice when 

 swimming amongst more brightly coloured fowl, for 



