GAD WALL. 79 



GADWALL. 



GADWALL DUCK. COMMON GADWALL. 



PLATE CXC. FIGURE II. 



Anas streptra, PENNANT. MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



Chauliodus strepera, SELBY. JENYNS. 



HHHE 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 'with verdure clad.' It is composed 

 of dry grass, and the eggs are covered with down. 



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 Gardens 

 of the Zoological Society. The birds bred there in the 

 year 1839, and again in 1841, and in 1853 or 1854. 



