WILD FOWL 
Breast dark sooty-brown; belly white; 
crown and throat white ; forepart of face 
and cheeks pale brownish-grey ; hind part of 
cheeks and sides of neck deep sooty-brown ; 
middle tail-feathers greatly elongated ; about 
9*5 inches Long-tailed Duck: 
Harelda glacialis $ ,p. 357. 
y. Breast and belly pure white. 
w®. Larger; wing about 8*5 to 9*0 inches. 
Head and neck metallic greenish- 
black, with a rounded oval white 
patch at the base of the bill. . . Golden-eye: 
Clangula clangula S ,p. 359. 
f. Head and neck metallic purplish- 
black, with a large triangular white 
patch at the base of the bill . . 
Smaller; wing about 6*5 inches; head 
and neck bluish-green shading into pur- 
ple and bronze on the crown, throat 
and neck; hinder part of the head from 
behind the eyes and nape, white . . 
Barrow’s Golden-eye: 
C. islandica S,p.?>6l. 
Bulfel-headed Duck: 
C. albeola $ ,p. 362. 
Head chestnut. 
A conspicuous cinnamon-rufous crest; bill 
red ; underparts blackish ; back earthy- 
brown; wing 10*0 inches Red-crested Pochard: 
Netta rufina S ,p. 364. 
o.\ No crest; bill not red. 
o^ Chest blackish ; breast, belly and back 
whitish finely vermiculated with black- 
ish; wing 8*5 inches Common Pochard: 
y. Chest chestnut; breast and belly white; 
back dark-brown slightly vermiculated 
with rufous; wing about 7*5 inches. . 
Head black, glossed with green or purplish. 
y8\ Chest chestnut; breast and belly white; 
back dark-brown, tinged with rufous . . 
Nyroca ferina 3^ ,p. 366. 
Ferruginous Duck, or 
White-eyed Pochard : 
N. nyroca 3 ,p. 368. 
Baer’s Pochard: 
N. baeri 3 ,p. 370, 
y. Chest black; breast and belly white. 
y. Back white, rather coarsely vermicu- 
lated with black Scaup-Duck: 
y. Back practically uniform black and 
glossy. 
w®. No conspicuous crest of long 
loose feathers; a chestnut ring at 
the base of the foreneck .... 
N. marila 3 ,p. 371. 
Ring-necked Duck: 
N. coUaris 3 ,p. 373. 
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