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DIMENS. Entire length twenty-one inches; length of the bill (from 

 the forehead) two inches two lines, (from the gape) two inches three 

 lines; of the tarsus one inch four lines and a half; from the carpus to 

 the end of the wing ten inches. 



DESCRIPT. (Mate.) Head, cheeks, throat, and upper part of the neck, 

 reddish brown or bay; the feathers on the crown elongated, and of a 

 silky texture, forming a crest, somewhat paler than the rest of the head ; 

 lower part of the neck, breast, belly, and abdomen, deep black : back* 

 wings, and tail, pale brown : flanks, bend of the wing, a large spot on the 

 sides of the back, speculum, and basal part of the primary quills, white : 

 bill, tarsi, and toes, bright red : nail of the bill white : membranes of the 

 feet black : irides bright red. (Female.) " Crown, occiput and nape, deep 

 brown ; the crest less tufted ; cheeks, throat, and sides of the neck, ash- 

 brown; breast and flanks yellowish brown; belly and abdomen gray: 

 back, wings, and tail, brown, with a slight tinge of ochre ; no white 

 spot on the sides of the back ; speculum half grayish white, the other half 

 pale brown ; base of the quills white tinged with brown : bill, tarsi, and 

 toes, reddish btown." TEMM. (Immature male.) Nape, fore part of the 

 neck, and breast, dark brown ; abdomen of a lighter brown ; flanks white, 

 tinged with pink: tail ash-brown; upper and under taiUcoverts dark 

 brown: legs and toes orange: the rest as in the adult. (Egg.) Uni- 

 form olive-brown: long. diam. two inches two lines; trans, diam. one 

 inch six lines. 



An immature male of this species, supposed to be in the second year, 

 was shot near Boston, in January 1826, while feeding on fresh water in 

 company with some Wigeons. It is now in the collection of Mr Yarrell. 

 Since then a second individual has occurred in the London markets ; a 

 third has been shot at Yarmouth ; and a fourth killed near Colchester. 

 This last is in the Museum of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Said 

 to inhabit the north-eastern parts, of Europe. Food, according to Tem- 

 minck, shell-fish and aquatic vegetables. 



252. F. ferina, Steph. (Common Pochard.) Head 

 and neck bright chestnut ; breast black ; flanks and scapu- 

 lars with undulating lines of black and grayish white : 

 no speculum : bill black, with a broad transverse blue 

 band. 



Anas ferina, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. n. p. 868. Pochard, Mont. 

 Orn. Diet, fy Supp. Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. n. p. 353. Red- 

 headed Pochard, Selb. Illust. vol. it. p. 347. pi. 63. f. 1. (Trachea,) 

 Linn. Trans, vol. iv. pi. 14. f. 5. 



DIMENS. Entire length nineteen inches : length of the bill (from the 

 forehead) two inches, (from the gape) two inches three lines; of the 

 tarsus one inch nine lines ; of the tail two inches six lines ; from the 

 carpus to the end of the wing eight inches three lines : breadth, wings 

 extended, twenty-nine inches seven lines. 



DESCRIPT. (Male.) Head and neck bright chestnut-red: upper part 

 of the back, breast, and rump, black ; middle and lower regions of the 

 back, scapulars, wing-coverts, flanks, and thighs, grayish white, with 

 numerous fine undulating black lines ; belly and abdomen whitish, very 

 faintly undulated in the same manner, the lines becoming darker towards 



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