FERRUGINOUS DUCK. 



WHITE-EYED DUCK. BED DUCK. CASTANEOUS DUCK. 



Anns ferruffhiea, PENNANT MONTAGU. 



Fnntju/a ni/roca, SELBY. 



Nyroca leucopthahna, FLEMING. 



Anas A Duck. Fenuginea Ferruginous rust-coloured. 



IN Europe this Duck is found principally in the eastern parts, 

 namely, in Russia, Italy, and Hungary, but also in Iceland, 

 Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Spain, France, Holland, and Swit- 

 zerland, though only rarely in the latter-named country. In 

 Asia it also occurs in Persia and India; and in Africa in Nubia 

 and Egypt. 



It attaches itself for the most part to the sequestered parts 

 of fresh-water lakes and rivers, and at times to the bays and 

 estuaries of the sea. 



In Yorkshire a Ferruginous Duck was' taken in a decoy in 

 Coatham Marsh, near Redcar, by the mouth of the Tees, on 

 the 17th. of March, 1850. 



Mr. Chaifey, of Dodington, Kent, has informed me that 

 one was killed off the coast near Dover, in the winter of 

 1849-50. In Oxfordshire a bird of this species was shot at 

 Cornwell, near Chipping Norton, December the 3rd., 1847. 

 A pair were killed near Oxford, in the year 1832; another 

 pair subsequently. In Suffolk one was shot on the coasfc early 

 in April, 1848. In Norfolk one, a male, was shot by the 

 Meer, Great Yarmouth, on the 16th. of April, 1850. It has 

 occurred in that neighbourhood in a few rare instances. A 



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