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STELLEK'S WESTERN DUCK 



WESTERN POCHAED. WESTERN DUCK. 



Anas dispar, TEMMINCK. 



Fuligula dispar, SELBY. 



Folysticta IS teller i f En ON 



Anas A Duck. D/s/>ar Different. 



THIS Duck, first described by Steller, is a native of the 

 north of Europe, Asia, and America. A few have been killed 

 in Sweden and Denmark, as also in Germany. In the second- 

 mentioned continent it is found in Siberia and Kamtschatka, 

 and others of the boreal regions. 



In Yorkshire one of these birds was shot at Filey, August 

 15th., 1845. In Norfolk, one, a male, at Caisted, near 

 Yarmouth, on the 10th. of February, 1830. 



The places they inhabit are rocky coasts and the mouths 

 of rivers, belonging, as they do, to the class of those 

 kindred species which 'in aquis degunt.' 



They are said to assemble in flocks, and the male and 

 female to keep permanently together. 



They fly with much ease and rapidity, and also swim and 

 dive well. 



Their food is made up of the small fry of fish, sea-insects 

 and their larvse. 



This species breeds, it is said, on high and steep rocks. 



This is a bird of striking and handsome appearance. Male; 

 length, one foot seven inches; bill, brownish black, the tip 

 yellow; upon the forehead and between the upper mandible 

 and the eye is a pale green spot. From the base of the 

 lower mandible a blackish brown streak goes down to or 

 nearly to a broad collar of the same colour, which encircles 

 the neck and joins that of the back. Iris, pale brown; round 



