SCAUP POCHARD. 199 



Fuligula Gesneri. Rail, Syn. 142. A. 



Glaucium minus striatum. Briss. Orn. 6. 416. 



Alias fraenata. Mus. Carls. Jose, ii. pi. 38. female. 



Le Millouinan. Buffi Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 221. Buff. Pi. Enl. 



1002. Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 535. 

 Canard Milouinan. Temm. man. d'Orn. 562. Id. 2 Edit. ii. 



865. 

 Scaup Duck. Penn. Brit. Zool 2. 2/5. pi. 100. Penn. Arct. 



Zool 2. 498. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 500. Lath. Syn. Sup. ii. 



351. Lath. Linn. Trans, iv. 128. pi 14./.3, 4. (trachea.) 



Wale. Syn. 1. pi. 60. ew>. .Brt*. Birds, 7. ;V. 250. 3fo?. 



Orn. Diet. 1. <rf Sw/j. Ben-. Brit. Birds, 2. 339. Wils. 



Amer. Orn. v. viii. p. 84. pi. Ixix.y. 3. 

 White-faced Duck. Smcerb. Brit. Miscell 2. ;;/. 62. 



ABOVE eighteen inches in length : the beak is clear 

 blue ; but the nostrils are whitish, and the hook, as 

 well as the edges of the mandibles, are black : the 

 irides are bright yellow : all the head and the upper 

 part of the neck black, glossed with green : the lower 

 part of the neck, the breast, and rump, are deep 

 black : the top of the back and the scapulars are 

 whitish, rayed with distant and fine zigzag black 

 lines : the wing-coverts are marbled with black and 

 white : on the wing is a white band : the belly and 

 sides are pure white : the vent is rayed with brown 

 zigzags : the tarsi and toes are ash ; the membranes 

 blackish. The female is smaller, and has a large 

 white band surrounding the base of the beak : the 

 rest of the head and the neck are blackish-brown : 

 the lower part of the neck, the breast, and the rump 

 are deep brown : the back and scapulars are striped 

 with zigzags of black and white : the sides are spotted 

 with brown, and rayed with zigzags of the same 

 colour : the irides are dull yellow. The young males 



