108 FRANK forester's FIELD SPORTS. 



with a gibbous process at the base, of a deep orange hue. Its 

 ci'own is of a violet-gray hue ; its cheeks of the most delicate 

 sea-green; the neck white; breast yellowish-buff, and lower 

 parts almost black. Upper parts and wings dusky, with the 

 exception of the fore part of the back, the upper part of the 

 wings, and a patch on each side of the rump, which are white ; 

 legs dull-orange. 



Length to the end of tail 25 inches, to end of wings 23. 



The rarity of this bird renders farther description unneces 

 sary. 



THE WESTERN DUCK. 

 Fnligida Dispar. 



This gaudy-colored, paiTOt-tinted gi-een and white fowl, with 

 an orange-colored belly and blue legs, is unknown to the eastern 

 side of this continent, and is so rare on the western, except in 

 the highest latitudes, that the figure contained in Mr. Audu- 

 bon's invaluable work on American Birds was not done from 

 an American specimen, but from one stuffed in the museum at 

 Norwich in England, which was killed off Yarmouth, in the year 

 1830. 



It is only mentioned here from the possibility, that by the 

 growing mildness and increasing change of temperature, this 

 bird may be drawn down to our shores. At present it is 

 scarcely a bird, far less game, of the United States. 



With this bird ends the list of the Sea Ducks of the United 

 States of America ; but inasmuch as I omitted, in my mention 

 of the Inland or Fresh-water Ducks, the Widgeon — Anas 

 Americana — which, though not properly a sea Duck, is rarely 

 found in the interior, even in the western States, although they 

 do visit the waters of the Ohio, and the adjacent ponds, keep- 

 ing company, however, even there with the Pintails and 



