244 AVES NATATORES. [FULIGULA 



Anas Marila, Temm^ Man, d'Orn. torn. it. p. 865. Scaup Duck, 

 Mont. Orn. Diet, fy Supp. Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. n. p. 339. 

 Scaup Pochard, Selb. Illust. vol. n. p. 354. pis. 66, & 66 *. (Trachea,) 

 Linn. Trans, vol. iv. pi. 14. f. 3, & 4. 



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

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

 the tarsus one inch five lines and a half; of the tail two inches seven 

 lines ; from the carpus to the end of the wing eight inches six lines. 



DE SCRIPT. (Male.) Head and upper part of the neck greenish black, 

 with glossy reflections ; lower part of the neck, and breast, pitch-black : 

 upper part of the back, and scapulars, grayish white, with fine, distant, 

 transverse, undulating, black lines : first three primaries, and greater 

 wing-coverts, dusky ; lesser coverts the same, but finely powdered with 

 white ; the rest of the primaries, and all the secondaries, white, with 

 dusky tips, forming a bar across the wings when closed : rump, tail, and 

 upper tail-coverts, deep brown, approaching to black: belly and flanks 

 pure white, the latter slightly undulated with black: vent, and under 

 tail-coverts, spotted With brown : bill pale grayish blue ; the nail black : 

 irides bright yellow: legs ash-gray; the membranes dusky. (Female.) 

 A broad, transverse band of yellowish white surrounding the base of the 

 bill ; rest of the head, and neck, chocolate-brown ; lower part of the neck, 

 breast, and rump, deep brown ; back and scapulars dusky brown, with 

 minute specks and close undulating lines of grayish white; flanks spotted 

 and undulated with brown : irides dull yellow. (Young male,) More or 

 less similar to the adult fetnale : some white feathers at the base of the 

 bill ; the black on the head and neck without gloss, and mixed with fea- 

 thers of a dusky brown colour : the white on the back variegated with 

 brown spots ; and the undulating lines closer together than in the adult 

 male: belly dirty white, spotted with gray; flanks spotted with dusky- 

 brown. (Egg.) Greenish yellow white: long. diam. two inches five lines; 

 trans, diam. one inch eight lines and a half. 



A regular winter visitant, and not uncommon at that season on most 

 parts of the British coast. Occasionally met with inland on fresh waters. 

 Retires in the Spring to high northern latitudes to breed. Food, marine 

 plants and insects, fish, and molluscous animals. Obs. The Anas free- 

 nata of Sparraann* is the female of this species. , 



256. F. cristata, Steph. (Tufted Pochard.) Head* 

 neck, crest, and upper parts, black, with glossy reflections ; 

 belly, flanks, and speculum on the wing, white: bill and 

 legs bluish gray. 



Anas Fuligula, Temm. Man. dCOrn. torn. n. p. 873. Tufted Duck, 

 Mont. Orn. Diet. Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. n. p. 370. Tufted 

 Pochard, Selb. Illust. vol. n. p. 357. pi. 65. 



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

 forehead) one inch seven lines, (from the gape) one inch nine lines and a 

 half; of the tarsus one inch four lines and a half; of the tail two inches 

 four lines; from the carpus to the end of the wing eight inches two lines: 

 breadth, wings extended, twenty-eight inches two lines. 



DESCRIPT. (Male.) Head, neck, breast, and a pendent crest of elon- 

 gated feathers on the occiput, black, with green and purple reflections : 

 hack, wings, and rump, brownish black, slightly glossed with green, and 



* Sow. Brit. Mite. pi. 62. 



