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and then only in winter; but at times a good many are to 

 be seen at the Laguna de la Janda. In the marisma below 

 Seville they are much more abundant, and Lord Lilford informs 

 me "that in August 1892 a female Pochard and a quantity of 

 eggs were brought to him from the marisma ; and the man who 

 brought them declared that in the previous spring and summer, 

 Pochards, which were almost unknown there, were only slightly 

 less abundant than Marbled Ducks, which latter were in 

 most extraordinary profusion owing to the abundance of 

 water." 



In the spring of that year, 1892, I never saw the country 

 around Gibraltar so flooded, the Laguna de la Janda resembling 

 an inland sea. 



"Wing-spot grey ; bill black, longer than head, broad band of blue across 

 the middle. 



Male. Head and neck chestnut-red ; breast and upper back black ; back 

 and scapulars white, finely vermiculated with black ; iris red. 



Female. Markings as in male, but with dull brown head and neck ; dark 

 brown breast and upper back. Length 1719 inches. 



247. Fuligula nyroca (Guldenstadt). The White - eyed 

 Pochard or Ferruginous Duck. 



Moorish. Ziriguil (Favier). Andalucian. Negrete, Pardote. 



The White-eyed Pochard may be considered, like the Marbled 

 Duck, a summer resident on both sides of the Straits, and is most 

 abundant in Morocco. 



I saw many hundreds at the lakes of Has el Doura towards the 

 end of April, being even then in large flocks. We shot them at 

 flight in the evening at the same time as some Marbled Ducks ; 

 but the two species did not fly together. There were also a few 

 of the White-eyed Pochards about the lake of Esmir at the end 

 of March. Favier writes of the present species, that it is 

 " abundant near Tangier, arriving from the south during May 

 and departing in November and December, totally disappearing 



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