FERRUGINOUS DUCK.
HYVYAD FRECH, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH.
WHITE-EYED DUCK. RED DUCK. CASTANEOUS DUCK.
Anas fefTHginea,
Fidigula nyroca,
JYvroca leucopthalma,
PENNANT. MONTAGU.
SELBY, JENYNS.
FLEMING.
Anas—A Duck. Ferrugima—Ferruginous—rust-coloured.
EN Europe this Duck is found principally in the eastern parts,
namely, in Russia, Italy, and Hungary, but also in Iceland, Sweden,
Denmark, Norway, Spain, France, 1 lolland, and Switzerland, though
only rarely in the latter-named country. In Asia it occurs in Persia
and India; and in Africa, in Nubia and Egypt.
I t attaches itself for the most part to the sequestered parts of freshwater
lakes and rivers, and at times to the bays and estuaries of the
sea.
I n Yorkshire a Ferruginous Duck was taken in a decoy in Coatham
Marsh, near Rcdcar, by the mouth of the Tees, on the 17th. of
March, 1850.
Mr. Chaffey, of Doddington, Kent, has informed me that one was
killed off the coast near Dover, in the winter of 1819-50. In Oxfordshire
a bird of this species was shot at Cornwell, near Chipping
Norton, December the 3rd., 18-47. A pair were killed near Oxford,
in the year 1832; another pair subsequently. In Suffolk one was
shot on the coast early in April, 1848. In Noi'folk one, a male,
was shot by the Meer, Great Yarmouth, on the 16th. of April, 1850.
it lias occurred in that neighbourhood in a few rare instances. In
Devonshire one or two. A specimen was purchased in the Cambridge
market. Several have been bought in London.
This bird has been observed in Orkney, though very rarely. In