434 -WEB-FOOTED BIRDS. 



rising high and sloping on the front, 2 inches 4 lines measured from 

 above; and 1 inch and ftlis thick at the base; the frontal angle 

 longer, the nostrils farther from the front, and the nail dijfiferently 

 shaped and smaller than in the Pochard. In the male, the region of 

 the bill, top of the head, chin, base of the neck, and adjoining parts 

 of the breast and back, rump, upper and under tail coverts, are 

 pitch-black. Sides of the head and the neck, bright glossy reddish- 

 chestnut with violet reflections on the head. Middle of the back, 

 scapulars, wing-coverts, tips of the secondaries, tertiaries, flanks, 

 posterior part of the belly, and thighs greyish-white, finely waved 

 with hair-brown. Primaries and their coverts hair-brown, darker on 

 their tips; secondaries ash-grey, tipped with white; the two adjoin? 

 ing tertiaries edged with black. Belly white, faintly undulated on 

 the medial line. In some specimens the white parts are glossed 

 with ferruginous. Bill and Legs blackish-brown. 



In the female, the ground color of the upper plumage and flanks is 

 liver-brown. Sides of the head, neck, and breast ferruginous. 

 Shoulders, shorter scapulars, and under plumage edged with the 

 same, middle of the back and wing coverts clove-brown, finely un- 

 dulated with greyish- white. No waved markings on the tertiaries 

 and secondaries, and only a few on the tips of the scapulars. Bill 

 as in the male ; but the neck more slender. 



POCHARD, OR RED-HEADED DUCK. 



(Fuligula ferina, Stephens. Bonap. Synops. No. 339. Rich, and 

 SwAiys. North. Zool. ii. p. 452. Anas ferina, Lin. Gmel. sp 

 31. Lath. Ind. sp. 77. Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 868. Wilson, 

 viii. p. 110. pi. 70. fig. 6. Pochard Duck, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. 

 p. 284. No. 491. Ibid. Brit. Zool. p. 15C. t. Q. 5. [male and 

 female.] Le Canard Milouin, Buff. Ois. ix. p. 216. PI. Enlum. 

 803. [male.] Fuligula, sp. Ray. Phil. Museum. No. 2710.) 



Sp. Charact. — Speculum grey; bill rather recurved, about 2 

 inches long, dilated at the extremity. — .¥a/e ash, thickly waved 

 with black lines ; head and anterior part of the neck only, wholly 

 chestnut ; a broad black pectoral belt. Female wholly brown of 

 various tints. 



