duck. 299 



64.— FLUTING DUCK. 



SIZE of the last. Bill black, and shaped much as in that bird ; 

 head and neck dun buff-colour, streaked a little with black; behind 

 the neck a narrow list of black ; sides of the neck transversely spotted 

 with black; back undulated with rufous dun; breast plain ; belly 

 and shoulders rufous, the rest of the wing brown ; but with no lucid 

 speculum ; beneath the wings, on the sides, the feathers are long 

 and straight; vent and sides of the rump white, but the white not 

 meeting at top ; tail brown, short ; legs black. 



Inhabits New South Wales, with the last, and is perhaps related 

 to it; but whether a Variety, or differing in sex, is not known. The 

 note somewhat like the sound of a flute.* 



65— SCAUP DUCK. 



THE MALE. 



Anas Marila, Ind. Orn. ii. 853. Lin. i. 196. Faun. suec. No. 111. Phil. Trans, lxii. 



413. Gm. Lin. i. 509. Brun. No. 50, 51. Midler, No. 111. Frisch, t. 170 ? 



Georgi, p. 166. Am. Orn. viii. 84. pi. 69. f. 3. Tern. Man. 563. Id. Ed. 2d. 865. 

 Anas hyberna mas, Gerin. v. t. 577. 

 — — subterranea, Scop. i. No. 83 ? 



• nigra ultima nova, Strom. Sbnd. 230. 



Glaucium minus striatum, Bris. vi. 416. 26. A. Id. 8vo. ii. 470. 



Fuligula Gesneri, Raii, 142. A. 6. Will. 279. 



Die Bergente, Besch. d. Berl, Nat. iv. 602. t. 17. fv 3,4. — the trachea Bechst. Dents. 



ii. 640. Id.Ed.2d. iv. 1016. 

 Topper, of Veld-duiker, Sepp, Vog. iii. t. p. 269. 

 Scaup Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. 500. Id. Sup. ii. 351. Br. Zool. ii. No. 275. pi. 100. 



Id.fol. 153. pi. Q. Id. 1812. ii. 251. pi. 42. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 498. Bew. ii. 



pi. p. 339. Lin. Trans, iv. 115. pi. xvi. f. 3, 4.— the trachea. Lewin, vii. pi. 250. 



Walcot, i. pi. 60. Pult. Dors, p, 20. Orn. Diet. $ Supp. 



* The Seety, or Whistler Duck, is said to be common in Bengal ; but it is not described. 

 See Field Sports, ii. p. 66. 



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