FERRUGINOUS DUCK. 337 



NA TA TORES. A NA TID&. 





THE FERRUGINOUS DUCK, 



AND WHITE-EYED DUCK. 



Fuligula nyroca. 



Anasferruginea, Red Duck, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 272. 



Ferruginous Duck, MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet, and Suppt. 



nyroca, Castaneous BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 332. 



Nyroca leucoptJialmos, White-eyed FLEM. Brit. An. p. 121. 



Fuligula nyroca, Nyroca Pocliard, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 354. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 242. 



White-eyed Duck, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. v. 



Anas leucopthalmos, Canard a iris blanc, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 876. 



THOUGH somewhat in colour resembling the Pochard or 

 Dun-bird last described, the Ferruginous Duck is at once 

 distinguished from it by its smaller size, its dark brown 

 back, and by the ends of its secondary quill-feathers being 

 white ; forming a single white bar on the wing at all 

 ages. Like the Pochard, the Ferruginous Duck is a 



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