ORNAMENTAL WATERFOWL. 211 
brown, changing to glossy greyish-brown on lower parts; wings 
glossy blackish-brown, the smaller wing-coverts finely speckled 
with paler brown ; under wing-coverts, except the central ones, 
are whitish, and axillaries brown; tail brown; bill bluish- 
grey (Antinori) or lead-coloured, except the nail, which is 
black, as also are the legs, toes, and webs; irides cherry- 
coloured (Anderson). 
Female. —General colour brown, paler on the under 
parts; the feathers at the base of the bill, throat, and sides of 
the upper parts of neck, and a band behind the eyes whitish ; 
wings as in the male but paler. 
NATION’S POCHARD. 
(Nyroca nationz), 
The specimens examined by Salvadori he states to be 
hardly distinguishable from Myroca brunnea, the skins having 
been received from South America, where they appear to have 
been collected in the vicinity of Lima. 
GENUS FULIGULA. 
Certain Pochards and the Scaup Ducks are both members 
of this genus. They frequent tidal estuaries and lakes, feeding 
on small mollusca, weed, and minute fishes; all are skilful 
divers, descending, according to Dr. Brehm, to a depth of fifty 
or sixty fathoms in open water. They are migratory and 
gregarious ; the males, which are considerably larger than the 
females, and usually different in plumage, collecting into flocks 
by themselves after incubation has commenced, and assuming 
