FERRUGINOUS DUCK. 
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NA TA TORES. 
ANATIDJS. 
FERRUGINOUS DUCK, 
WHITE-EYED DUCK. 
Fuligula LEUCOPTIIALMOS. 
PLATE CXVir. FIG. I. 
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Eggs, supposed to be those of the Ferruginous Duck, 
are in the collections of Mr. Wilmot and others, and I 
have little doubt are correctly named. They are unlike 
those of any of the numerous species which I have figured, 
and exactly resemble in size that given in Dr. Thienemann’s 
work; and are also like others sent me by Mr. Green, a 
dealer in birds and birds' eggs. 
In 1844, Mr. Green had five eggs of this species, toge¬ 
ther with the birds alive, from Holland, which eggs re¬ 
semble the plate in colour: last summer he received others, 
which were tinted with green, but this variation from 
cream colour to several shades of green is not uncommon 
in different individuals of the same species of this tribe 
of birds. Temminck says that this species breeds amongst 
the reeds on the borders of large rivers and marshy dis¬ 
tricts, and that it lays nine or ten eggs. The egg figured 
in the last Edition, which is again repeated, was kindly 
lent me by Dr. Pitman. 
