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tail-coverts black, the tail dark greyish dusky; flank 
the same as the back; belly very light grey, nearly 
white; legs and toes bluish grey, webs black. The 
female differs considerably and is not nearly so 
handsome: the bill is black; irides brown; the 
head and neck dull rusty brown, except a patch 
between the beak, the eye and the chin, which is 
yellowish white; back and scapulars dusky, freckled 
with grey; wing-coverts dusky; secondaries grey, 
shghtly tipped with white; rump and tail-coverts 
dusky; breast brown; belly and flanks grey, lightest 
in the middle of the belly; under tail-coverts very 
dark grey, slightly freckled with white. Young 
males are at first like the females, but gradually 
change after the first autumn moult. 
The egg, according to Meyer’s picture, is pale 
greenish blue; Yarrell says Hewitson has coloured 
it buffy white. 
Scaup Duck, Fuligula marila. 'The Scaup Duck 
is a tolerably numerous winter visitor to our coast, 
arriving about November. It seems to confine 
itself much more to the sea and the mouths of tidal 
rivers than the Pochard, seldom or never making its 
appearance in our inland ponds and other waters. 
Whether this bird ever remains to breed in England 
seems doubtful. Mr. Cordeaux* mentions having 
seen an occasional stray bird in Lincolnshire as late 
* ‘ Zoologist ’ for 1867 (Second Series, p. 811). 
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