128 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



31st. — The "Pagets* Pochard," taken last year, is still in 

 excellent health, and the breast, which became a dull brown in 

 summer, is again as red as the head. It has never been as tame 

 as the Pochards, which will occasionally even take bread from the 

 hand, and does not dive so much as they do, but has the same 

 peak-like raising of the feathers on the crown. Its back is far 

 darker than a Pochard's now, and its beak not so white a 

 lavender. Of its hybrid origin there can be no doubt. This 

 cross has received the name of Fuligula ferinoides, Bartl., and 

 F. homey eri, Baed., and Suchetet thinks it may also be Anas 

 intermedia, Jaubert (cf. Leverk. J. f. O. 1890, p. 223). That it 

 is really between F. nyroca and F.ferina there cannot be the 

 slightest doubt. 



