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winter visiter to this country, and but few are annually 

 taken. It has been killed in Cambridgeshire and in Nor- 

 folk, and the flesh is reported to be excellent. Mr. Bul- 

 lock obtained specimens in the London market ; and I 

 have seen examples of all ages that were procured in the 

 London market ; these are generally received from the 

 eastern counties, between the Thames and the Humber, 

 but two were killed near Oxford, in the winter of 1832, 

 and another pair also during the last winter, for a notice 

 of which I am indebted to W. Borrer, Esq. jun. A hy- 

 brid between this species and the Pochard has been re- 

 ferred to. 



This species is occasionally sent to London alive from 

 Holland, where it is sometimes caught in decoys. M. 

 Vieillot says it is a rare bird in France, and only seen in 

 winter. It has been taken in Switzerland, Provence, and 

 Italy; it is common throughout the year at Corfu, in 

 Crete, and in Sicily, but is only observed at Malta in 

 winter, and is stated to go as far south as North Africa 

 and Egypt. It is the Sarcelle tf Egypt of Buffon. 



The Ferruginous Duck is recorded to have been taken 

 in Persia; and specimens have been received from North 

 Western India, the Himalaya Mountains, Thibet, Nepal, 

 and Calcutta. 



It appears to be a resident in the North of Germany 

 from October to March. Dr. Latham says it inhabits 

 Russia, and is frequent about the Don. It was formerly 

 said to have been found in the rivers of Sweden ; and 

 Pennant, in his Arctic Zoology, mentions having had a 

 specimen sent him from Denmark ; but this species is 

 not included by Professor Nilsson at the present time 

 either in his Ornithology of Sweden, or in his Fauna of 

 Scandinavia. It is, however, included among the Birds 



