AMERICAN SCAUP. 



NA TA TORES. 



347 

 ANATIDJE. 



THE AMERICAN SCAUP. 



Fuligula mariloides. 



Fuliyula mariloides, American Scaup, VIGORS, Zoology of Captain Beechey'g 



Voyage, page 31, note. 



I AM indebted to the kindness of my friend, Mr. Henry 

 Doubleday, for the opportunity of figuring and describing a 

 Duck very closely allied to our Scaup ; differing from it, in- 

 deed, so little, that it has been doubted, by good authority, 

 whether it ought to be considered otherwise than as a 

 variety only. Since this specimen has been in my posses- 

 sion, for my use in this work, it has been examined in com- 

 parison with the true Scaup by several ornithological friends, 

 who believe, with Mr. Doubleday and myself, that it is 

 entitled to be described as distinct, and I have, therefore, 



