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Male.—Head and neck black ; upper body greyish-white, 
finely pencilled with black; wing dark brown; wing-bar and 
sides white ; bill and legs lead coloured ; eyes yellow. 
Female,—General plumage brown, a white line round 
base of the bill extending on to the cheeks; eye yellow; bill 
lead colour, tipped with black ; legs and feet bluish-lead. 
Young.—In first plumage resemble female ; the colours 
more indistinct. 
Egg.—Greenish-white ; eight to ten in number. May. 
Incubation, about twenty-five days. 
Nest Down.—‘ Dark brown, without white tips, but 
with obscure white centre. Size of Mallard” (Seebohm). 
AMERICAN SCAUP DUCK. 
(Fuligula affinis. Fulix affints). 
This form is smaller than that of the preceding, and 
confined to America. The colours are, if anything, somewhat 
darker. 
TUFTED SCAUP. 
(Fuligula cristata). 
The Tufted Duck, or ‘‘ Magpie Diver” as it is sometimes 
called, comes to us in winter from Lapland, Norway, and 
Sweden, on its way to the warmer climates of Italy, Spain, and 
corresponding countries. It is a plump, round bird, swimming 
somewhat low in the water, and but seldom captured in decoys, 
on account of the ease with which it escapes by diving. In 
about half-a-dozen counties of England it remains to breed, 
depositing its eggs in a roughly composed nest, usually near 
