diff -r 913848da1af0 Lib/test/test_deque.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_deque.py	Sun Jan 26 19:36:59 2014 +0200
+++ b/Lib/test/test_deque.py	Sun Jan 26 20:00:19 2014 +0200
@@ -507,6 +507,11 @@
         for s in ('abcd', range(2000)):
             self.assertEqual(list(reversed(deque(s))), list(reversed(s)))
 
+    def test_reversed_new(self):
+        klass = type(reversed(deque()))
+        for s in ('abcd', range(2000)):            
+            self.assertEqual(list(klass(deque(s))), list(reversed(s)))
+
     def test_gc_doesnt_blowup(self):
         import gc
         # This used to assert-fail in deque_traverse() under a debug