300 DUCK. 



THE FEMALE. 



Anas frsenata, Mus. Carls, fasc. ii, t. 38. Ind. Orn. ii. 853. Tern. Man. 570. Id. 



Ed. 2d. 866. Kramer, 342. 17.— female ? 

 Le Canard brun, Buf. ix. 252. PI. enl. 1007. Br. Misc. t. 62. 

 Duck with a circle of white feathers round the bill, Ray's Letters, p. 61. 

 Scaup Female, Lewin, vii. pi. 250.* Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 351. 



The male Scaup Duck is about eighteen inches in length, twenty- 

 nine in breadth, and weighs twenty-three ounces. The bill two 

 inches long, and broader at the end, lead-eolour, with a paler base; 

 irides golden yellow ; the head is full of feathers, and, as well as the 

 neck, black, glossed with green ; lower part of the neck and breast 

 black; back and scapulars pale grey, finely undulated with numerous 

 transverse lines of black ; lower part of the back, rump, and vent, 

 black ; the wing coverts crossed with fine, alternate dusky and white 

 lines, so minute as to appear, at a distance, as powdered with these two 

 colours ; the ten prime quills are greyish ash, the four outer ones 

 dusky black on the outer webs ; the other six greyish white, but the 

 ends of all black ; from the eleventh to the twentieth white, with 

 dusky ends, forming a broad white bar on the wing; the five next 

 the body, and the tail feathers dusky ; the latter consists of fourteen 

 feathers ; the under parts of the body from the breast white, pow- 

 dered with dusky between the legs, and sides over the thighs; legs 

 pale lead-colour ; webs and claws black. 



In the female the bill is broad, flat, and pale blue, with a black 

 knob; irides yellow ; head dark brown ; at the base of the bill a 

 band of white, almost half an inch broad, passing quite round the 

 forehead, cheeks, and throat ; breast dark brown, the feathers tipped 

 with darker brown ; back and scapulars light grey, waved with 

 irregular dusky lines ; belly dirty white; vent the same, waved with 

 narrow dark lines ; rump and tail very dark brown ; the last very 

 short ; greater quills as the tail ; secondaries white, tipped with 

 brown ; but the ends of the greater quills are darker than the rest ; 

 legs dusky blue, webs black. 



