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The Common, the Velvet, and the Surf-scoters are 

 marine ducks, but are occasionally found on the 

 estuaries of rivers, when driven there by stormy 

 weather. The same may be said of the Scaup Ducks ; 

 the Eider, likewise, is a sea species. 



The Pochard (Anas ferina) is one of our best 

 ducks for the table, and is extremely beautiful. It 

 is 20 inches long, 30 inches in expanse of wings,. 



POCHARD. 



and twenty nine ounces in weight. Mr. Hewitson 

 thus describes its breeding in this country on the 

 information of Mr. James H. Tuke : " Whilst at 

 Scarborough, about the middle of June, Mr. Bean 

 informed me that several pairs of red-headed ducks 

 as the gamekeeper called them, had been seen upon 



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