Rare visi- 
tant. 
352 NATATORES. FULIGULA. Nyroca Pocnarp. 
NYROCA POCHARD. 
] Fuueura Nyroca, Steph. 
PLATE LXIII. Fie. 2. 
Fuligula Nyroca, Stephens, Shaw’s Zool. 12. 201. pl. 55. 
Anas Nyroca, Gmel. Syst. 1. 542.—Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 869. sp. 91. 
Anas Africana, Gmel. Syst. 1. 522.—Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 875. sp. 104.— 
Bullock, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 11. 178. 
Anas ferruginea, Gmel. Syst. 1. 528.—Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 866. sp. 84. ? 
Nyroca leucophthalmos, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 121. sp. 181. 
La Sarcelle d’ Egypte, Buff: Ois. 9. 273.—Id. Pl. Enl. 1000. 
Canard & Iris blanc, ou Nyroca, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 876. 
Die Weissaugige Ente, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 2. 526. 
Tufted Duck, Lath. Syn. 6. 541. 79. var. A. 
African Teal, Lath. Syn. 6. 555. 
Ferrugineous Duck, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 601. No. 285. ?—Mont. Supp. to 
Orn. Dict. 
Castaneous Duck, Mont. App. to Sup. Ornith. Dict. 
Olive Tufted Duck, Sow. Br. Miscell. 1. pl. 21. 
White Eye, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 121. sp. 181. 
Nyroca Pochard, Shaw’s Zool. 12. 201. pl. 55. 
As it still appears doubtful to what species the Verrugi- 
nous Duck of PENNANT’s British Zoology should be referred, 
I have quoted the synonym in the present instance, with a 
query as to its correctness. Montacu, in the Supplement to 
his Ornithological Dictionary, conceived PEnnant’s bird to 
be the female of the one he described under the title of the 
Ferrugineous Duck, but which, according to his description, 
seems to have been a young male of the Nyroca. After- 
wards, in his Appendix to the Supplement, upon an exami- 
nation of the proper female of the Nyroca, he changed his 
opinion, being unable to reconcile it with the short account 
in Pennant; and the subject of which, he there suggests, 
may possibly be the Nyroca in its young state, though he 
seems more inclined (from the figure in PENNANT’s work) to 
suppose it to be actually a female Wigeon in the autumnal 
plumage. In Britain, the Nyroca Pochard is considered a 
scarce bird, and indeed, till within a few years past, was 
reckoned one of our rarest visitants. Of late, however, it 
