FERRUGINOUS POCHARD. 205 



" THE beak in this is dusky ash-colour : the eyes 

 black : head, neck, breast, belly, thighs, and under 

 tail-coverts fulvous : back, scapulars, wing-coverts, and 

 rump transversely barred fulvous and brown : quills 

 not much unlike the last (Common Pochard} : tail 

 black and white : legs as the beak : claws black. In- 

 habits Mexico." Latham. 



FERRUGINOUS POCHARD. 



(Fuligula ferruginea.) 



fv.Jiisco-rnfa, abdomine albo, rostra dilatato pedibutque pallidc 



casruleis. 

 Brown-red Pochard with the abdomen white, the beak dilated, 



and, with the legs, pale blue. 

 Anas rufa. Linn. Faun. Suec. No. 134 ? 

 Anas ferrugiuea. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 528. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 



866. 



Red Duck. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 576. 

 Ferruginous Duck. Pcnn. Brit. Zool. 228. 5. pi. 99. Lath. 



Gen. Syn. 6. 526 Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. /few. Brit. Birds, 



ii. 359. 

 Red-breasted Duck. Leiv. Brit. Birds, 7. pi. 224. 



AN obscure species : thus described : " The beak 

 is long and flattened, a little rounded at the base ; 

 colour pale blue : head, neck, and whole upper parts 

 of the body reddish-brown : throat, breast, and belly 

 the same, but paler : legs pale blue ; webs black." 



Pennant informs us that one of this species was 

 killed in Lincolnshire, and that he had also received 



