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FEBKUGINOUS DUCK. 



WHITE-EYED DUCK. RED DUCK. CASTANEOUS DUCK. 



PLATE CXCVI. PIG. I. 



Anas ferruginea, PEKNANT. MONTAGU. 



Fuligula nyroca, SELBT. JENYNS. 



Nyroca leucopthalma, FLEMING. 



THIS Duck, like the others of its kindred, builds its nest near rivers, 

 ponds, and marshes. The male bird leaves the female soon after she 

 has begun to sit. The nest is well supplied with down from the breast 

 of the parent mother, as a lining. 



The eggs of this species are white, with a slight tinge of green, 

 and nine or ten in number. They are laid by the beginning of June, 

 and are hatched in twenty-two or twenty -three days. 



As Frederick Bond, Esq. has informed me, the Ferruginous Duck 

 bred in the year 1854, in the gardens of the Zoological Society, 

 London; and in that or the preceding year also with the Tufted 

 Duck. 



