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NATATORES. 



ANATID.E. 



ANATIDJE- 



s^- _- - 



THE POCHARD, 



OR DUN BIRD. 



Fuligula ferina. 



Anas ferina^ Pochard Duck, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 271. 



Tlie Pochard, MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 369. 



Nyroca FLEM. Brit. An. p. 121. 



Fuligula Red-headed SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 347. 



Common JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 241. 



Red-headed GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xvii. 



Anas Canard milouin, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 868. 



THE POCHARD, or Dun-bird, for this species is known by 

 various names, as Red-headed Poker, and Red-eyed Poker, 

 from the prevailing colour of the head, and the peculiar 

 colour of the eye, not observed in any other British Duck ; 



