TUFTED DUCK. 99 



TUFTED DUCK. 



TUFTED POCHARD. 

 PLATE CXCVII. FIGURE I. 



Anas fuligula, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Fuligula cristata, SELBY. JENYNS. 



Nyroca fuligula, FLEMING. 



rriHESE birds breed along the stony shores of the 

 -*- sides of inland waters, among the cover of vege- 

 tation, more less thick, with which they are usually 

 bordered. It is not made till the end of May or 

 beginning of June. 



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. 



