AMERICAN SCAUP. 



24T 



NATATORES. 



ANATID^.. 



THE AMERICAN SCAUP. 



Fuligula mariloides, American Scaup. Vigors, Zoology of Captain Beechey's 



Voyage, page 31, note. 



I AM indebted to the kindness of my friend, Mr. Henry 

 Doubleday, for the opportunity of figuring and describing a 

 duck very closely allied to our Scaup ; differing from it, in- 

 deed, so little, that it has been doubted, by good authority, 

 whether it ought to be considered otherwise than as a variety 

 only. Since this specimen has been in my possession, for my 

 use in this work, it has been examined in comparison with 

 the true Scaup by several ornithological friends, who believe, 

 with Mr. Doubleday and myself, that it is entitled to be 

 described as distinct, and I have, therefore, applied to it the 

 specific term mariloides, as mentioned by the late Mr. 

 Vigors, in a quotation to be hereafter noticed. The British 



