  Using data from the recent BONuS experiment at Jefferson Lab, which utilized
a novel spectator tagging technique to extract the inclusive electron-free
neutron scattering cross section, we obtain the first direct observation of
quark-hadron duality in the neutron F_2 structure function. The data are used
to reconstruct the lowest few (N=2, 4 and 6) moments of F_2 in the three
prominent nucleon resonance regions, as well as the moments integrated over the
entire resonance region. Comparison with moments computed from global
parametrizations of parton distribution functions suggest that quark--hadron
duality holds locally for the neutron in the second and third resonance regions
down to Q^2 ~ 1 GeV^2, with violations possibly up to 20% observed in the first
resonance region.
