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TUFTED DUCK. 



TUFTED POCHABD. 



PLATE CXCVII. PIG. I. 



Anas fuligula, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Fuligula cristata, SELBT. JENYNS. 



Nyroca fuligula, FLEMING. 



THESE birds breed along the stony shores of the sides of inland 

 waters, among the cover of vegetation, more or less thick, with which 

 they are usually bordered. 



The receptacle for the eggs, for it can hardly be called a nest, is 

 composed of stalks and grasses. 



The eggs vary in number from eight to ten. They are of a pale 

 buff colour, with a tinge of green. 



The male bird leaves the female after she has begun to sit. 



This species, as Frederick Bond, Esq. has informed me, paired with 

 the Ferruginous Duck, as I have mentioned in the account of the latter, 

 in the year 1853 or 1854, in the gardens of the Zoological Society. 



