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waved with grey lines. Wings hair-brown ; the secondaries bluish- 

 grey, narrowly tipped with white, and the two adjoining tertiaries 

 edged with black ; axillary feathers and under coverts pure white. 

 Bill ; upper mandible light blue ; its tip, a narrow belt round its base, 

 and the under mandible, black. Legs black. 



The female is liver-brown above, with pale edgings. Forehead, 

 base of the neck, sides of the breast, and flanks, chestnut, edged 

 with yellowish-brown. Chin, throat, and fore part of the belly, 

 greyish- white. Wings, bill, and legs as in the male. 



SCAUP DUCK. 



(Fuligula marila, Stephens. Bokap. Synops. No. 340. Richard. 



North. Zool. ii. p. 453. ^nas marila, Lixn. Faun. Suec. No. 111. 



Lath. Ind. sp. 54. Temm. Man. d"Orn. ii. p. 865. Wilsox, viii. 



p. 84. pi. 69. fig. 3. Le Milouinan, Buff. PL Enlum. 1002. [the 



old.] Scaup Duck, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 498. Ibid. Brit. 



Zool. p. 153. t. Q. Fuligula, sp. Ray, Phil. Museum, No. 2668.) 

 Sp, Charact. — Speculum white: bill very broad; no crest. — 



Male glossy black, scapulars waved with white. Female brown, 



near the bill whitish. 



This species, better known in America by the name of 

 the B[ue Bill, is another general inhabitant of the whole 

 northern hemisphere ; passing the period of reproduction 

 in the remote and desolate hyperboreal regions, from whence 

 at the approach of winter, they issue over the temperate 

 parts of Europe as far as France and Switzerland ; and in 

 the United States are observed to winter in the Delaware, 

 and probably proceed as far as the waters of the Southern 

 States, having been seen in the lower part of Missouri by 

 Mr. Say in the spring, and are abundant also in winter in 

 the Mississippi around and below St. Louis. Their breeding 

 places, according to the intelligent and indefatigable Rich' 

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