pochard

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In the pochard, the bill is of a bluish colour; that of the canvas-back is dark green; moreover, the eye of the pochard is yellow, while that of its congener is fiery red I was gratified in perceiving that I had at last drifted within range of a thick clump of the ducks.

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  1. noun Any of various diving ducks of the genus Aythya, especially A. ferina of Europe and Asia, which has gray and black plumage and a reddish head.

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  • Of course, the red-crested pochard, a native of Europe and Asia, was new, and it was fun to see so many European wigeon. —  News for Lynchburg News Advance
  • In the pochard, the bill is of a bluish colour; that of the canvas-back is dark green; moreover, the eye of the pochard is yellow, while that of its congener is fiery red I was gratified in perceiving that I had at last drifted within range of a thick clump of the ducks. —  The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
  • M. in the boat got within range of some confiding pochard, and we on shore got a few by flukes. —  From Edinburgh to India ; Burmah
  • The pochard are good to eat here To-morrow we go South--both sorry and glad to go--sorry to leave the little social circle and glad to be on the road again. —  From Edinburgh to India ; Burmah
  • I can see the pied golden-eye pre-eminent among the advancing party; now the pochard, with his copper-coloured head and neck, may be distinguished from the darker scaup-duck; already the finger is on the trigger, when, perhaps, they suddenly veer to the right and left, far beyond the reach of my longest barrel or, it may be, come swishing overhead, and leave a companion or two struggling on the shingle or floating on the shallow waters of the harbour Pagham Harbour is now reclaimed, and where once was mud, or, at high tide, shallow water, is rank grass and thistles. —  Highways ; Byways in Sussex
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  1. Also poker, and formerly poachard, pocard; said to be a variant of poacher. Cf. poacher, 3.
 

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