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White-eyed or Ferruginous iW k
Anas nyroca, Giild. Nov. Comm. Petrop., tom. xiv. p. 403.
ferruginea et africana, Gmel. edit. Linn. Syst. Nat., torn. i . }» < :
— glaucion, Pall. Zoog. Rosso.-Aaiat., tojn. ii. p. 268.
leucophthalmos, Bechst. Naturg. Deutsehl., tom. iv. p. t009
Nyroca leucophthalmos, Flem. Hist, of B rit. Anim . p Hi
leucophthalma, Bonap. Geog. A Comp. List of B ir# xtf lint A '•» A •. p. 58.
Aythya nyroca, Boie, Isis, 1822. p. A64.
—r leucophthalmos, Breton. ***m. ItottOkey.. p. * i ;:
Fuligula nyroca, Steph. Cost. «0 %s
N'V
anil private GofiwtKw M t'im u Brrt»«».. a n to vu *««#«*
nu lib e r o f tlte example*
other wild fowl, from fíM-..-. reliant«- i vA
alÉ¡mugfe os», is nmI *« to#®? r,- »•< «tot Bdtwhwrifh
other parts of oor .¡¿avi .
porti mis, such ás Tari» ' * $
Persia, and some part» <4 p
PorttWal and Spain it to M8 ’
autunin and winter, and psrfttes&l
Conthiaat» the same :p
: Gurney, jut»., writes to mefb&s.
in Nov ember. I should sat ,l W?V:* * •“ ' 1
I have named; although I fe#»» W ‘ M
market!, I never saw feat m x .i vw- f*
but f Iftve bought wi'.iv- Wtft» KB#*
Bide NVrocas from young fenÁ«
females Vary very roueh i» ptoiK&jie* i*
certainly thence that the greater aaswtof (fewtfe
therefore,'requires some qwaaracafcie»
in the Gavttens o f the Zoological Society,
dives with 1 the greatest ease, and often n»«*sw.
migrations, I it generally Hu*» at a lo» e k v a ém , «
states that I* its food, consists of the root*., to#
frogs, the iVy o f fish, hut rarely, m-owfcttg to
the rushes ¿ordermg rivers, ponds, and to «****1
supplied with down froto the breast of
are white, slightly tinged with green, m é measure about
breadth. Tile young are taken to the w»*cr and provided .
The folio» lug notes respecting
“ Although the White-eyed Dii
during the am ceeding spring months. Of recent examples 1
« An adult»lale killed at Horsey, near Yarmouth, on the If
Yarmouth in the remarkably cold spring o f 1855; o f the:
February, two jither birds during the first week in April, and
t o t . two were tlso males in perfect plumage. A pair shot ai
rail.’
¡tough, and in Asia Minor,
Africa. Iu France, Italy,
irtsman goes out. It is in
i the western parts o f the
On this head, Mr. J . H.
: got in Leadenhall market
s Mr
the ft
i Holland, it
wided with suitable ponds, such as those
,, but. I believe, has bred. It swims and
beneath the surface. Except during its
t heavy action. The Rev. F. O. Morris
o f various aquatic plants, insects, small
fish themselves. Its nest is built among
osed o f the same materials, and is well
e eggs, which are nine or ten in number,
hes in length by one inch and a half in
d by their mother as soon as hatched.”
■v will probably be regarded with interest,
■en killed in many instances in Norfolk, it
¡reals, and generally in seve
mention the following
1850, and four exam]
male was killed on