193 



RED-HEADED POCHARD. 



(Fuligula fcrina.) 



TV. cinereo undulata, capite brunnco, fascia pectoral i crisso uro- 



pygioque nigris. 

 Pochard waved with ash-colour, with the head brown, a band on 



the breast, the vent and rump black. 

 Anas ferina. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 203. Gmd. Syst. Nat. 1.530. 



Lath. Ltd. Orn. 2. 8G2. 

 Anas rufa. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 5/5. Lalh. Ind. Orn. 2. 8G3. 



male. 



Anas fera fusca. Raii, Syn. 143. A. 

 Penelope. Briss. Orn. 6. 384.pl. 35. f. 1. 

 Millouin. Euff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 216. Buff. PI. Enl. 803. 



Cuv. Reg. Anim. \. 535. 



Canard Milouin. Temm. man. d'Orn. 564. Id. 2 Edit. ii. 868. 

 Poker, Pochard, Red-headed Wigeon. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 284. 



Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 491. Alb. Birds, 2. pi. 98. Lath. Gen. 



Syn. 6. 523. Lath. Syn. Sup. ii.^354. Lath. Linn. Trans. 



iv. 1 1 6. pi. 1 4.f. 5, G. (trachea.) Lew. Brit. Birds, 7. ;;/. 253. 



Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. and Sup. Bew. Brit. Birds, 2. pi. 356. 



Wils. Amer. Orn. v. viii. p. 110. pi. xc.f. 6. male. 



EIGHTEEN inches in length : the beak black at its 

 base and point, and deep blue in the middle : irides 

 orange: the head and neck are very brilliant brownish- 

 red : the upper part of the back, the breast, and rump 

 are dull black : the rest of the back, the scapulars, 

 wing-coverts, sides of the body, thighs, and vent are 

 whitish-ash, rayed with numerous close zigzag ashy- 

 blue lines : the belly is whitish, varied with nearly 

 imperceptible ashy zigzag lines : the quills and tail 

 are deep ash : the tarsi and toes are bluish ; the mem- 



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