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feathers mottled with reddish white. There are some brown 

 spots on the sides; below the breast is greyish white clouded 

 with brown. Back on the upper part, reddish brown; under 

 tail coverts, dark grey. 



In the young male the black on the breast does not appear 

 till the second year. Previously the plumage resembles that 

 of the adult female. 



Mr. Selby describes a variety shot on the Northumberland 

 coast, in which the head and neck were bright reddish orange, 

 passing into reddish white upon the crown; the breast very 

 pale brown, with a silky lustre; all the rest -of the body 

 greyish white, with numerous very fine zigzag lines of a 

 darker shade; the quills and tail pale greyish white. Legs 

 and toes, ash grey, with the webs darker. 



Sir William Jardine mentions another variety which was 

 of a pale tint of cream-colour, yet having all the colours 

 marked in their particular places. 



A variety of Duck, a male, of a kind supposed at the time, 

 by W. R. Fisher, Esq., and Mr. Yarrell, to be a hybrid 

 between the Pochard and the Ferruginous Duck, and described 

 as such by the former accordingly in the 'Zoologist,' volume 

 iii, pages 437-8, and afterwards, as hereafter mentioned, as a 

 new species, under the title of 'Fuligula ferinoides,' or Paget's 

 Pochard, but since considered, by Frederick Bond, Esq., to 

 be intermediate between the Pochard and the Scaup, was 

 obtained on Eollesby Broad, near Yarmouth, on the 27th. of 

 February, 1849. The following is the description of it: 



Iris, yellowish white; head, crown, and neck, rich chesnut; 

 the feathers on the lower part of the breast changing from 

 yellowish brown to freckled. Back, freckled. The wings 

 longer than those of the Pochard; the feathers of the axillary 

 plume freckled at the end; greater and lesser wing coverts, 

 freckled. 



Subsequently a second specimen, similar to the before- 

 mentioned one, was purchased by Mr. Bartlett, in the market, 

 London, and this was described by Mr. Yarrell, under the 

 name of the American Scaup, 'Fuligula mariloides,' of Vigors, 

 who considered that there might prove to be two American 

 species; the one the British Scaup, though a smaller bird 

 there than here, and the other a larger species, also known 

 and alluded to by Dr. Richardson, Swainson, and Sir William 

 Jardine, in a note to his edition of Wilson. I believe, how- 

 ever, that American birds of our kinds are uniformly larger 



