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AYTHYA FERINA. THE RED-HEADED POCHARD. 



POKER. RED-HEADED POKER. GREAT-HEADED POKER OR WIGEON. 

 DUNBIRD. DUNCUR OR DUNKER. 



Fig. 6?. 



Anas Ferina. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 203. 



Anas Ferina. Lath. Ind. Omith. II. 862. 



Canard Milouin. Anas Ferina. Temm. Man. d' Omith. II. 868. 



Pochard. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. 



Red-headed Pochard. Fnligula Ferina. Selby, Illustr. II. 347. 



Common Pochard. Fuligula Ferina. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. Anim. 24 L 



Aythya Ferina. Bonap. Comp. List, 58. 



Male eighteen inches long, with the hill rather narroiv, two 

 inches in length, of the nearly uniform breadth of eight-twelfths, 

 black at the base and tip, didl light blue elseivhere ; feathers of 

 the forehead stijish; head and half of neck broivnish-red, loiver 

 part of neck and hind part of hack brownish-black; hack 

 greyish-white, minutely undulated with dark-grey ; secondary 

 quills ash-grey ; lower parts greyish-iuhite, minutely undulated ; 

 hind part of abdomen and lower tall-coverts dusky ; tail 

 greyish-brown, of fourteen feathers. Female with less blue on 



