AMERICAN SCAUP. 



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NATATORES. 



ANATIDJE. 



THE AMERICAN SCAUP. 



Fuligula mariloides. 



Fuligula mariloides, American Scaup, VIGORS, Zool. of Captain Beechey's 



Voyage, p. 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 posses- 

 sion for my use in this work, it has been examined in com- 

 parison 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, 



