210 NEW ZEALAND POCHARD. 



LARGER than a Teal : at the corner of the gape a 

 white spot : the prevailing colour of the plumage is 

 black : the head chesnut : the breast crossed with 

 reddish lines : the four first outer quills are black, 

 within ash-colour j from the fifth to the tenth en- 

 tirely cinereous ; eleventh to nineteenth white j the 

 twentieth, on the fore part half white, half dusky j at 

 the hinder part ash-coloured ; all of them tipped with 

 black ; from the twenty-first to the twenty-fifth, and 

 also the wing-coverts, wholly black : the belly whitish, 

 with dusky spots : the sides and vent snow-white : 

 the tail black. Inhabits the Caspian Sea and the 

 vicinity. 



NEW ZEALAND POCHARD. 



(Fuligula Novae Zealandiae.) 



Fu. nigra viridi nitens subtus cincrasccns, capite collogue postice 



ccerulco purpureoque nitente, fascia alarum alba. 

 Black Pochard glossed with green, beneath ash-coloured, with the 



head and neck behind shining with blue and purple, a white 



fascia on the wing. 

 Anas Novae Zealandiae. GmeL St/st. Nat. 1. 541. Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 870. 

 New Zealand Duck. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 543. 



" LENGTH fifteen inches : beak two inches long, 

 and somewhat stout ; colour of a pale bluish-white ; 

 the nail at the tip black : irides the colour of gold : 

 the head and neck are black ; the hind head glossed 

 with purple, changing in some lights to blue : upper 



