7G 



GADWALL. 



GADWALL DUCK. COMMON GADWALL. 



PLATE CXC. FIG. II. 



Anas strepera, PENNANT. MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



ChauUodus strepera, SELBT. JENTNS. 



THE nest of the Gadwall 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. 



The eggs are from five to seven or eight, or, Selby says, ten or 

 twelve in number. They are of a uniform buff white colour. 



The engraving is from an egg laid in the garden of the Zoological 

 Society. The birds bred there in the year 1839, and again in 1841, 

 and in 1853 or 1854. 



