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than with us, and I should therefore rather look for a second 

 species in the smaller sort spoken of. 



A third specimen was also obtained in Leadenhall market, 

 by Mr. Henry Doubleday. This was at first imagined to be 

 of the same species as Mr. Yarrell's American Scaup, but was 

 then considered, by Mr. W. 11. Fisher, as a new one, and was 

 figured and described by him under the name of Paget's 

 Pochard, 'Fuligula ferinoides,' in the 'Zoologist.' The following 

 is the description, as given by Mr. Fisher: 



'The specimen of this bird which I have mentioned to be 

 in the possession of Mr. H. Doubleday, and which is repre- 

 sented in the foreground of the cut at the head of this 

 paper, is supposed to be in the adult dress, and has the bill 

 black at the point and at the base, the remaining portion 

 being pale blue; the irides yellowish white; the head and 

 upper part of the neck of a rich and very deep chesnut, 

 finely glossed with purple; the lower part of the neck and 

 breast, black; in the younger birds the neck almost wants 

 the purple gloss, and is of a lighter colour, the breast being 

 also at first not much darker than the neck; the back and 

 wing coverts are minutely freckled with gpeyish white on a 

 black ground; the sides and flanks, both under and below 

 the wings, are in the immature bird like the back, but in 

 the adult lighter, the freckling being produced, as in the 

 back of the Common Pochard, by lines of black on a white 

 ground; the back and wing coverts .are also darker in the 

 immature than in the adult bird, and are tinged with yellowish 

 brown; wing coverts, very dark brown, slightly powdered with 

 greyish white; the primaries, light brown, broadly edged with 

 dark brown, except the first, which has the whole of the 

 outer and great part of the inner web dark brown; all the 

 visible part of the secondaries, white, slightly powdered with 

 grey, and forming a white bar across the wing; about a q.uarter 

 of an inch near the ends of these feathers is black, and the 

 tips are white in the immature bird, but in the adult the 

 wbite is hardly visible; at both ages the uppermost feathers 

 of the speculum are of a more uniform grey than the lower, 

 and more or less edged with black 1 ; the rump and upper 

 tail coverts, black, this colour being spread over a much 

 greater extent in the adult than in the immature bird; on 

 the chin is a small triangular spot of yellowish white; the 

 lower part of the breast and belly, in the immature specimen, 

 yellowish brown mixed with light grey, and slightly freckled 



