GADWALL 



GADWALL DUCK COMMON GADWALL. 



PLATE CXC. FIGURE II. 



Anas strepera, LINNAEUS. 



Chaulelasmus streperus, DRESSER. 



THE nest of the Gad wall, rarely found in England, is 

 placed among reeds, sedge, rushes, or other aquatic 

 herbage, such as vegetates by the sides of pools, meres, and 

 lakes, and in marshy places. It is composed of dry grass, 

 and the eggs are covered with down. 



The eggs are from eight to ten or twelve in number. 

 They are of a uniform buff white colour, tinged with green 

 when just laid. 



The birds have repeatedly bred in the Gardens of the 

 Zoological Society. 



