FERRUGINOUS DUCK. 



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FERRUGINOUS DUCK. 



WHITE-EYED DUCK. RED DUCK. CASTANEOUS DUCK. 



PLATE CXCVI. FIGURE I. 



Anas ferruginea, 

 Fuligula nyroca, 

 Nyroca hucopthalma, 



PENNANT. MONTAGU. 

 SELBY. JENYNS. 

 FLEMING. 



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. 



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