62 POCHARD. 
feathers mottled with reddish white. There are some brown 
spots on the sides; below the breast is greyish white clouded 
with brown. Back on the upper part, reddish brown; under 
tail coverts, dark grey. 
In the young male the black on the breast does not appear 
till the second year. Previously the plumage resembles that 
of the adult female. 
Mr. Selby describes a variety shot on the Northumberland 
coast, in which the head and neck were bright reddish orange, 
passing into reddish white upon the crown; the breast very 
pale brown, with a silky lustre; all the rest of the body 
greyish white, with numerous very fine zigzag lines of a 
darker shade; the quills and tail pale greyish white. Legs 
and toes, ash grey, with the webs darker. 
Sir William Jardine mentions another variety which was 
of a pale tint of cream-colour, yet having all the colours 
marked in their particular places. 
A variety of Duck, a male, of a kind supposed at the time, 
by W. R. Fisher, Esq., and Mr. Yarrell, to be a hybrid 
between the Pochard and the Ferruginous Duck, and described 
as such by the former accordingly in the ‘Zoologist,’ volume 
iii, pages 437-8, and afterwards, as hereafter mentioned, as a 
new species, under the title of ‘Fuligula ferinoides, or Paget’s 
Pochard, but since considered, by Frederick Bond, Esq., to 
be intermediate between the Pochard and the Scaup, was 
obtained on Rollesby Broad, near Yarmouth, on the 27th. of 
February, 1849. The following is the description of 1t:— 
Iris, yellowish white; head, crown, and neck, rich chesnut; 
the feathers on the lower part of the breast changing from 
yellowish brown to freckled. Back, freckled. The wings 
longer than those of the Pochard; the feathers of the axillary 
plume freckled at the end; greater and lesser wing coverts, 
freckled. 
Subsequently a second specimen, similar to the before- 
mentioned one, was purchased by Mr. Bartlett, in the market, 
London, and this was described by Mr. Yarrell, under the 
name of the American Scaup, ‘Fuligula mariloides,’ of Vigors, 
who considered that there might prove to be two American 
species; the oné the British Scaup, though a smaller bird 
there than here, and the other a larger species, also known 
and alluded to by Dr. Richardson, Swainson, and Sir Wilham 
Jardine, in a note to his edition of Wilson. I believe, how- 
ever, that American birds of our kinds are uniformly larger 
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