282 WILD-FOWL AND SEA-FOWL OF GREAT BRITAIN 



and half the neck, all the way round, rich orange 

 brown, lower part of the neck brownish-black. The 

 upper parts are very finely waved with dark grey 

 lines on a greyish-white ground ; the hind-part of the 

 back and upper tail coverts brownish-black ; the tail 

 greyish-brown. The primary quills are brownish- 

 grey, tipped with dusky brown ; the secondaries are 

 ash grey, edged with white ; the coverts are grey, 

 edged with whitish ; the breast is pale grey, the hind- 

 part of it and the sides being waved faintly like the 

 back ; the belly is greyish-brown, indistinctly waved, 

 and the feathers under the tail are blackish-brown. 

 Legs and feet are lead colour, and the webs black. 

 Length, from bill to tail, eighteen inches. 



Female. — Smaller. Bill, eyes, and feet coloured 

 like those of the male, but the blue band on bill 

 narrower. The head and the hind-part of neck 

 are brownish-red ; the fore-part of cheeks, a space 

 beneath and behind the eye, and the throat are 

 paler. Upper parts greyish-brown ; fore-part of back 

 waved with whitish ; tail greyish-brown. Lower part 

 of the neck and a part of the breast are also greyish- 

 brown, but the feathers of these are edged with 

 brownish-white. The middle of the breast is greyish- 

 white ; the flanks dusky ; and the belly grey brown. 



THE SCAUP DUCK. 

 (Fuligula marila.) 



Male. — The bill light lead colour, the nail nearly 

 black ; iris bright yellow. Head and upper half of 



