THE WIGEON AND POCHARDS 283 



neck black, glossed with green and purple ; the rest 

 of the neck and part of the back and breast black ; 

 middle of back, scapulars, and wing coverts white, 

 waved with dusky lines ; hind-part of back brownish- 

 black, tail greyish-brown. Outer secondaries partly 

 white, primaries partly greyish-brown ; breast and 

 sides white. Belly and lower tail coverts dusky ; 

 legs and feet pale greyish-blue, the membranes 

 dusky. Length, twenty inches. 



Female. — Head, neck, fore-part of back and 

 breast brown ; a broad band of white on the fore- 

 head, upper parts blackish-brown, in part waved 

 with whitish ; middle of breast white, sides and hind- 

 parts dusky brown. Length, eighteen inches. 



The Young Birds. — Almost Hke the female, the 

 white in the latter and in the young giving rise to 

 the term " white-faced." 



