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SCAUP POCHARD. 
small ; wings concave, acute; tail short, rounded, 
rather stiff ; legs posterior, short ; feet ample, 
hallux with a large lobe. 
Types F. Gesneri, ferina, &c. — Cosmopo- 
lite. 
Note .— -Form broad and compressed; habits ma- 
ritime or partially fluviatile ; seek their prey 
by diving. 
Fully ula or the Pochards is one of the groups of 
diving ducks that frequently seek the fresh waters, 
and though often found on the coasts, we believe 
their true localities to be extensive inland lakes, 
seeking the shores and rivers, when the others 
are bound up in frost. One of our most common 
species is 
THE SCAUP POCHARD. 
Fulvjula Gesneri, Willughbv. 
PLATE V. 
Anas mania, Linn. — Fuligula mania, Sleph P. Gesneri, 
Willughby, Ray . — Canard Malouinan, Temm . — Scaup Duck, 
or Scaup Pochard of British authors. — (White-faced Duck, 
the young). 
This very handsome species will give some idea of 
the general form of the pochards, but it is rather 
an exception in the colouring. In form these 
