360 NATATORES. FULIGULA. WESTERN POCHARD. 



blackish-brown ; the tips of the feathers upon the man- 

 tle and scapulars being paler. Speculum as in the male 

 bird. Bill and legs blackish-grey. 



Young. The Young, previous to the first moult, have no appear- 

 ance of the crest ; and the base of the bill and region 

 of the eyes are varied with white feathers. The upper 

 part of the plumage is more deeply bordered with pale 

 brown. The speculum is less distinct, and of a grey- 

 ish-white. After the moult the males become much 

 darker, lose the white feathers about the base of the 

 bill, and display the crest, in which state the bird ap- 

 proaches very closely in appearance to the Anas Scan- 

 diaca of LATHAM. 



WESTERN POCHARD. 



FULIGULA DISPAR, Steph. 

 PLATE LXVI*". 



Fuligula Dispar, Steph. Shaw's ZooL 12. 206 Jardine and Selby's Illus. 



Orn. 

 Anas Dispur, Gmel. Syst. 1. 535 Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 866. sp t 83. 



Anas Stelleri, Pall. Spic. 6. 35. t. 5 Gmel. Syst. 1. 518. 



Western Duck, Penn. Arct. ZooL 2. 497. pi. 23. Lath. Syn. 6. 532. Id. 



Sup. 275. 

 Western Pochard, Shaw's Zool. 12. 206. 



A SPECIMEN of this very rare Duck was obtained in Fe- 

 Very rare bruary 1830, at Caisted, near Yarmouth, in Norfolk ; and, 

 visitant. as a cur i ous coincidence, another was taken about the same 

 time in Denmark. These two are the only instances on re- 

 cord of the capture of this species in Europe, as it remains 

 unnoticed by all our own writers as a British visitant, and is 

 not enumerated by TEMMINCK, or other continental authors, 

 in the list of European birds. The first mentioned specimen 

 is now in the possession of the Rev. GEORGE STEWARD, Rec- 

 tor of Caisted, and it is through the kind attention of Mr 

 DAWSON TURNER of Yarmouth (who procured for me the 

 loan of a correct drawing), that I have been enabled to pre- 



