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PLATE CCLXIV 



WESTERN POCHARD. 



FULIGULA DISPAR. 



The Western Pochard is one of the rarest birds that have 

 occurred in Great Britain, and the only specimen that we 

 know of was obtained in February, 1880, at Caisted, near 

 Yarmouth in Norfolk. 



The north-eastern parts of Asia and the opposite coasts of 

 America seem to be the native countries of this beautiful and 

 rare duck, among which may be enumerated Kamtschatka, 

 and the coast of the Kurilen and Aalaschnka. 



Four or five individuals only are recorded to have been 

 captured in Sweden, one in Denmark, and a female on the 

 borders of the Baltic near Dantzic. The localities frequented 

 by the Western Pochard are rocky coasts, from whence it 

 only comes to the mouths of large rivers during stormy 

 weather. 



The plumage of the Western Pochard makes it a con- 

 spicuous object of attention, and it cannot be mistaken for 

 any other duck ; therefore, it is unlikely that it is overlooked 

 by sportsmen, particularly in the present age, when the sub- 



