. Animals in menageries. alive in any collection; and even stuffedspecimens are rarely to be met with among our com-mercial naturalists. The Red-headed ferina, Leach. (Fig. 40.) Head and neck bright rufous: breast black: back andupper plumage blackish cinereous, undulated withtransverse grey lines ; under parts white, with cine-reous lines: rump and under tail covers black. Fuligula ferina, Leach, Cat. Mus. Brit. Selby, III. Brit. 347. Anas ferina, Linn., Auct., Wilson, viii. pi. 70. Anas rufa, Gmelin, Latham, &c. Canard Milouin, Enl. 803. male. Temm. Ma
. Animals in menageries. alive in any collection; and even stuffedspecimens are rarely to be met with among our com-mercial naturalists. The Red-headed ferina, Leach. (Fig. 40.) Head and neck bright rufous: breast black: back andupper plumage blackish cinereous, undulated withtransverse grey lines ; under parts white, with cine-reous lines: rump and under tail covers black. Fuligula ferina, Leach, Cat. Mus. Brit. Selby, III. Brit. 347. Anas ferina, Linn., Auct., Wilson, viii. pi. 70. Anas rufa, Gmelin, Latham, &c. Canard Milouin, Enl. 803. male. Temm. Man. ii. 868. Pochard, or Red-headed Wigeon, of British Authors. Although this well-known bird truly belongs to thenatural division of the FuUgulin(E, or sea ducks, it is yetone of those very few which frequent fresh water inpreference to such as is salt; and it possesses, moreover,a very decided aptitude for domestication: hence, frombeing also a common bird in a state of nature, ands 2 260 ANiaiALS IN MENAGERIES. ~A. therefore easily pro-cured, it is one ofthose which everygentleman may pos-sess with advantage,if his grounds con-tain a piece of watersufficiently large to^. ^ _, admit of enjoyment -- - _,,,.--^^r^rv-.,-^i5K^ri>- to the hird, and where its dexterity in diving may interest and amuse the spec-tator. This duck, like the majority of its congeners, is onlya winter visiter in the British islands, which it flies to asa shelter from the intense cold of the northern is then most abundant in the fens of Lincolnshire andNorfolk ; but of late years the numbers have very con-siderably diminished; and the majority of those nowsent to the London markets, where they are often calleddun-birds, are procured by shooting. Mr. Selby says,that in the northern parts of England, and in Scotland,it is somewhat rare. This he attributes either to thedeficiency of some particular food, or from those districtsbeing out of his migratory line : we are more disposed,however, to at
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