POCHARD. dS 
than with us, and I should therefore rather look for a second 
species in the smaller sort spoken of. 
A third specimen was also obtained in Leadenhall market, 
by Mr. Henry Doubleday. This was at first imagined to be 
of the same species as Mr. Yarrell’s American Scaup, but was 
then cons.dered, by Mr. W. R. Fisher, as a new one, and was 
figured and deserined by him qadae the name as Paget’s 
Pochard, ‘Fuligula ferinoides,’ in the ‘Zoologist.’? The following 
is the. description, as given by Mr. Fisher:— 
‘The specimen of this bird which I have mentioned to be 
in the possession of Mr. H. Doubleday, and which is repre- 
sented in the foreground of the cut at the head of this 
paper, is supposed to be in the adult dress, and has the bill 
black at the point and at the base, the remaining portion 
being pale blue; the irides yellowish white; the head and 
upper part of the neck of a rich and very deep chesnut, 
finely glossed with purple; the lower part of the neck and 
breast, black; in the younger birds the neck almost wants 
the purple gloss, and is of a lighter colour, the breast being 
also at first not much darker than the neck; the back and 
wing coverts are minutely freckled with greyish white on a 
black ground; the sides and flanks, both under and below 
the wings, are in the immature bird lke the back, but in 
the adult lighter, the freckling being produced, as in the 
back of the Common Pochard, by lines of black on a white 
ground; the back and wing coverts are also darker in the 
immature than in the adult bird, and are tinged with yellowish 
brown; wing*coverts, very dark brown, slightly powdered with 
greyish white; the primaries, light brown, broadly edged with 
dark brown, except the first, which has the whole of the 
outer and great part of the inner web dark brown; all the 
visible part of the secondaries, white, slightly powdered with 
grey, and forming a white bar across the wing; about a quarter 
of an inch near ‘the ends of these feathers is black, and the 
tips are white in the immature bird, but in the adult the 
white is hardly visible; at both ages the uppermost feathers 
of the speculum are of a more uniform grey than the lower, 
and more or less edged with black; the rump and upper 
tail coverts, black, this colour being spread over-a much 
greater extent in the adult than in the immature bird; on 
the chin is a small triangular spot of yellowish white; the 
lower part of the breast and belly, in the immature specimen, 
yellowish brown mixed with light grey, and slightly freckled 
