CHAULEIASMTS STREPERÀ.
CHAU LELA8MU
Gadw
.4tuu streperà, Linn. Faun. Suec., p. 4JL
— cinerea, Brehm, Vog. Deutsch., p. 87 ;
Chauliodus streperà. Swains. Journ. Roy. I***., '
Ktinorhynchus streperà, Eyton, Monogr. A sat., p. I#7.
Chaulelasmus streperà, G. R. Gray, List of Gen- of Bfetà»,
Querquedula streperà, Macgili. Man. Nat. B h t . f l» ..
I believe ft will be admitted that team q w -m « i w *re tm d k m*** ■
others: thus the common Wild i : ?.»
may be said o f the Teal; while m d Y « M Dw*. aUhmnfh m nm rm <M
and somewhat less circumser'dwwl iw *iww ha
Islands, as in Europe ■
never very great; indeed it w w ef&tfiry w NR
Leadenhall Market, t te *W m m # * » * I k m . ¡wM ty tu t t*te
obtain specimens for fejfe iafifei#»*—* Nttdb '«f ■ ■ ■
Lincolnshire
o f Ducks sent inm, fe t k emtval and ******** |M«W r f the Enrepe«; « * « 1 *
common as in HoBawl, N m h AMem, h m Miaor and Vnrti«. 1« feet we may «** dw
temperate regions of both the tHA a«H the W *M ; for it i* dwtfiimied over the *W i
portion o f America, from the iar-c*aw».i'k*! 6« and *11 the Old WorM, Ji uoi h.w
»«From Dr. Richardson’* ‘ way* Swmwm« “ it braves the r i» « w «1 the « rr«
in the wooded districts o f the Barren imrnnd*, up to their most northern hoots. »>■ fei
specimens on the Saskatchewan, the «MOnr of May.
“ The haunts o f the Gadwidl, in Athenca, are the takes, rivers, ami m a - '-■■■. «he « » » » , pw * » * i» y
such as abound with reed» and rank aquatic grasses, in which they so much dobgM m - ! - s * i »' « * » !
sea-coast: their food of course is procured m such situations, and consists > t sqowfs
seeds. They feed d a rin g the night, and pass the day concealed amapK tb* “ 'ted
emq«ri«o with the Vfnllard and other kindred forms, its powers of «gin a n -cry ,.p r ,lw i and. wiltife
' .. # » r ite e # * * » , it dives with the same facility and freqicney » many o f the ttmrit.0 dtaeha
t o n s m M e « « . . (> » * •
| ... tio i information respecting the brceding-places of the Gadwall in ' VV.MJJ f--- - the Ohl VA arid hi
and i-'sfa.ij.' the out. authentic eggs known are those laid by captive specimens in on
hire V Wet repeated* .u the Gardens of the Zoological Society; and an egg “ I * Whs«*
Mr. Vurw.fi « * . vi a im% white, tinged with green, and measured two iuehe. and nm iit
by one inn. smi eight lines in breadth. Mr. Hewitson, in the third edition of bit • <
o f the eggs ot British Hod' states that Mr. Proctor ", found a single nest ,
placed near the edge of some fresh water, among reeds; it was competed of thy «**»■
five in number." But Mr. Alfred Newton is somewhat doubtful as to the bit#»'
for in his ornithological notes to M r Sabine Baring Gould's 'Iceland. to
“ looking upon this as a bird of much more southern range, I have oi»il(w! *» im m «*•»
willinglv own 1 am wrong,' on receiving good testimony to the contrary .
Thompson says the Gadwall is "S' raw weurrcocc in Ireland, nod oimtovr;■„
as having come to his knowledge in eighteen years, hut adds that he ti
Jun., of Dublin, “ that he has «mo ;.f tcrnt one on sale by tviid-fowl dealers in ft
some years past, all of wbot. tent ¡w*> killed in Ireland," and remarks “ this Ma
said o f the Gadwall m the cm* ti Hnglailltj for the Rev. Mr. Lubbock inform» <«* •'
but is generally swti in vairfcet once or.twice in the winter.
Mr. Jerdon, in fet* pwhfothed ‘ Birds of India,’ informs us that v»v- ik
rare bird in any part of tteai emmtry during the cold weather, that it
and larger tanks in moderately Urge parties, that its flight is rapid, and it
common duck, and that , is jusfly considered one o f the best wild ducks far n
that specimens from Jig»» do ! diller in any respect from those found in Man
Structurally the Gadwall is a swimming and buoyant rather than a divsc •