Young. 
Very rare 
visitant. 
360 NATATORES. FULIGULA. WestTERN PocHarp. 
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. 
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. 
Foureuia 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. 83. 
Anas Stelleri, Pail. Spic. 6. 35. t. 5.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 518. 
Western Duck, Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 497. pl. 23.—Ldth. Syn, 6. 532.—Iad. 
Sup. 275. 
Western Pochard, Shaw’s Zool. 12. 206. 
A spECIMEN of this very rare Duck was obtained in Fe- 
bruary 1830, at Caisted; near Yarmouth, in Norfolk ; and, 
as a curious 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 TEmmrnck, or other continental authors, 
in the list of European birds. The first mentioned specimen 
is now in the possession of the Rev. GEorncE Stewarp, Rec- 
tor of Caisted” and it is through the kind attention of Mr 
Dawson Turner of Yarmouth (who procured for me the 
Joan of a correct drawing), that I have been enabled to pre- 
