FEMALE. 
SCAUP DUCK. Cuass Il. 
both above and below, black; the thighs barred 
with dusky and white strokes; the legs dusky. 
[The head of the female is of a dark brown 
color; at the base of the bill is a band of white 
nearly half an inch broad, which passes round 
the forehead, cheeks, and throat; the breast is 
dark brown; the back and scapulars light grey, 
transversely waved with irregular dusky lines; 
the belly dirty white ; the tail short, dark brown, 
and consists of fourteen feathers; the greater 
quil feathers the same; the secondaries white 
tipped with brown; the legs dusky blue; the 
webs black. | 
Mr. /Villughby acquaints us, that these birds 
take their name from feeding on scaup, or 
broken shell fish: they differ infinitely in co- 
lors; so that in a flock of forty or fifty there 
are not two alike.* 
* A drawing of the female of this species was communicated 
to Mr. Pennant by the reverend Hugh Davies, about the year 
1792. The same is figured in the Museum Carlsonianum, un- 
der the name of the Anas frenata, and has been more recently 
given to the public in Mr. Sowerby’s British Miscellany, pl. 62. 
under the denomination of the White faced Duck ; he received 
his specimen from Yorkshire, and considers it as a distinct spe- 
cies. Dr. Latham, in his second supplement, p. 351, however 
clearly proves that it is the female Seaup. Eb. 
