FRANK FORESTER S FIELD SPORTS. 



alight on the pond, without in the least suspecting the treachery 

 of their kinsman. The Red-headed Duck arrives with us usually 

 about the first of November — early in March it leaves for the 

 North, where it breeds." — Giraud's Birds of Long Island. 



SCAUP DUCK. 



Anas Marila; Wils. Amer. Orn. Fuligula Marila, Scaup Duck; 

 Sio. &f Rich. Scaup Duck ; Nutt. Man. — Vulgo, Broadhill. 



" Specific Character. — The head and the neck all round, with 

 the fore part of the breast and the foie part of the back black ; 

 the sides of the head and the sides and hind part of the neck 

 dark green, reflecting pui-ple ; length of bill, when measured 

 along the gap, two inches and five-sixteenths ; length of tarsi 

 one inch and three-eighths ; length from the point of the bill to 

 the end of the tail, nineteen inches, wing eight inches and five- 

 eighths ; a broad white band crossing the secondaries, and con- 

 tinues on the inner primaries. Adult male with the forehead, 

 crown, throat and upper part of the fore-neck brownish-black ; 

 sides of the head, neck, and hind-neck dark-green ; lower por- 

 tion of the neck all round, with the upper part of the breast 

 pui-plish-black ; rest of the lower parts white, undulated with 

 black towards the vent ; under tail coverts blackish-browii ; tail 

 short, dark-brown, margined and tipped with lighter brown ; 

 upper tail coverts and rump blackish-brown, middle of the hack 

 undulated with black and white, fore part black ; wings brown, 

 darker at the base and tips, speculum white, formed by the band 

 crossing the secondaries and inner prima lies; scapulars and 

 inner secondaries undulated with black and white ; secondary 

 coverts blackish-brown, undulated with white. Female with a 

 broad patch of white on tlie f)rehead ; head, neck, and forepart 

 of the breast, umber brown ; upper parts blackish-brown; ab- 

 domen and lower portion of breast white ; scapulars faintly 

 marked with white. 



