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the winter. It builds in the marshes among reeds 

 and rushes, the female laying nine or ten eggs of a 

 white colour, slightly tinged with green. It is said to 

 feed chiefly upon insects, small frogs, aquatic plants 

 and their seeds, and but rarely on small fishes. 



ST. DOMINGO POCHARD. 



(Fuligula Dominica.) 



Fu. riifa, capiie anteriorejidiginoso, specula alarum Candida. 

 Red Pochard with the anterior portion of the head sooty-coloured, 



the speculum of the wing snowy. 

 Anas Dominica. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 201. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



521. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 874. 

 Anas spinosa. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 522. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 



874. 



Querquedula Domiuiceusis. JBriss. Orn. 6. 472. pi. 41.y. 2. 

 Sarcelle rouge a longue queue de la Guadeloupe. Buff. Hist. 



Nat. Ois. 9. 283. Buff. PL Enl. 968. 

 Sarcelle a queue epineuse. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 282. Buff. 



PL Enl. 967. 



Spi nous-tailed Teal. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 555. 

 St. Domingo Teal. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 554. 



A VERY small species, scarcely measuring a foot in 

 length : its beak is black : the fore part of the head 

 and the throat are soot-coloured : the hind part of 

 the neck reddish : the back, scapulars, upper tail- 

 coverts, sides, and rump, are rufous, with the middle 

 of the feathers blackish : the wing-coverts are grey- 

 brown mixed with white ; but some of them are 



