354 NATATORES. FULIGULA. SCAUP POCHARD. 



Upper tail-coverts black ; the under ones pure white. 

 Tips of the quills black, glossed with green. Bill and 

 legs greyish-blue. Irides white. 



Female. Head and neck umber-brown, tinged with chestnut-brown, 

 being brightest upon the cheeks and auriculars. Breast 

 umber-brown, the feathers being margined with pale 

 chestnut-brown. Flanks and sides yellowish-brown. 

 Belly white. Vent brown, tinged with grey. Under 

 tail-coverts white. Upper parts of the body deep glossy 

 umber-brown, margined paler. Secondaries white, tip- 

 ped with greenish-black, and forming a speculum. 

 Greater quills light towards the base (particularly the 

 fifth, sixth, and seventh), with their tips greenish-black, 

 ridge of the wing white. Tail blackish-brown. Bill 

 and legs blackish-grey. Of less size than the male 

 bird. 



SCAUP POCHARD. 



FULIGULA MARILA, Steph. 

 PLATE LXVI. & LXVI". 



Fuligula marila, Steph. Shaw's ZooL 12. 198. 



Nyroca marila, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 122. sp. 183. 



Anas marila, Linn. Syst. 1. 196. 8 Gmel. Syst. 1 . 509 Lath. Ind. Orn. 



2. 853. sp. 54 Wils. Amer. Orn. 8. 8?. pl/69, f. 3. male. 

 Fuligula Gesneri, Rail Syn. 142. A. 6 Will. Orn. 279. 

 Glaucium minus striatum, Briss. Orn. 6. 416. 26. A. 



Le Milouinan, Buff. Ois. 9. 221 Id. PI. Enl. 1002. 



Canard Milouinan, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 865. 



Berg-Ente, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 1016 Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 2. 524. 



Scaup Duck, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 275. pi. 100 Arct. Zool. 2. 498 Lath. 



Syn. 6. 500. 49. Id. Sup. 2. 351 Id. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 4. 128. 



pi. 14. f. 3. and 4. (trachea) Lewin's Br. Birds, 7. pi. 250 Mont. Orn. 



Diet. 1, and Sup Bewick's Br. Birds, ed. 1826, p, t. 339. Wils. Amer. 



Orn. 8. 87- pL 69. f. 3. 

 Scaup Pochard, Shaw's Zool. 12. 198. 

 Anas fraenata, Mus. Carls, fas. 2. t. 38. female. 

 White-faced Duck, Sow. Brit. Miscel. 2. 5. t. 62. 



PROVINCIAL Covy Duck, Spoonbill Duck. 



Periodical INSTEAD of the fresh-water lakes and rivers of the inte- 

 visitant. r - or ^ ^jch seem to b e t j ie appropriate haunts of the species 



