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tail-coverts black, the tail dark greyish dusky ; flank 

 the same as the hack ; belly very light grey, nearly 

 white ; legs and toes bluish grey, webs black. The 

 female differs considerably and is not nearly so 

 handsome : the bill is black ; hides brown ; the 

 head and neck dull rusty brown, except a patch 

 between the beak, the eye and the chin, which is 

 yellowish white ; back and scapulars dusky, freckled 

 with grey; wing-coverts dusky; secondaries grey, 

 slightly tipped with white ; rump and tail-coverts 

 dusky ; breast brown ; belly and flanks grey, lightest 

 in the middle of the belly ; under tail-coverts very 

 dark grey, slightly freckled with white. Young 

 males are at first like the females, but gradually 

 change after the first autumn moult. 



The egg, according to Meyer's picture, is pale 

 greenish blue ; Yarrell says Hewitson has coloured 

 it bufiy white. 



SCAUP DUCK, Fuligula marila. The Scaup Duck 

 is a tolerably numerous winter visitor to our coast, 

 arriving about November. It seems to confine 

 itself much more to the sea and the mouths of tidal 

 rivers than the Pochard, seldom or never making its 

 appearance in our inland ponds and other waters. 

 Whether this bird ever remains to breed in England 

 seems doubtful. Mr. Cordeaux* mentions having 

 seen an occasional stray bird in Lincolnshire as late 



* ' Zoologist ' for 186T (Second Series, p. 811). 



