. ANAS FERINA. 
BED HEADED POCHARD or DUN BIRD. 
Generic Character See Anas Cygnus, (ferns,) 
Anas ferina. Corpore cinereo-undulato^ capite brun- 
neo, fascia pcctoraii crisso uropygioque 
nij4ro. 
Red-headed Pochard. Body ciuereoas, with waved 
line.-, head reddish brown, wing spot_, 
vent and rump black. 
Anas ferina. Lin. syst. v. \. p. 20S. Gmel. Si/st. 
V. \. p. 530 Im. Orn. v. 2. p. S62. 
Anas fkra fusca. Raii Si/n, p. h3. 
Penelopk Bris. Av. v. 6. p. 38^. t.3b,f.}. 
Le Canard Milouin. Buff, Hist. d*Ois. v. 9, p. 216. 
lb I I. tlnl. 80:1 
Canard Milouin. Temm. Man, d'Om. ed. 2. 
p. 868. 
Pochard^ or R ed -headed Widgeon. Br Zool. Sm. 
€d. V. p. 21 1. Arct. Zool. v 2. p 28^. 
Alhin Br. Birds, v. 2, t, 9b Lath. 8yn, 
V. 6 p 523. lb. Sup. V. p. 354. 
Lin, Trans, 4. p. U6. t. It. / , 6. 
Lewin s Br. Birds, v. 7. t. 253. Mont. 
Orn. Diet. lb. Sup. Bewick's Br. Birds, 
pt. 2. p. 320. 
Weight from twenty-four to thirty ounces, length 
about nineteen and breadth thirty-seven inches. 
