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TUFTED POCHARD. 
nino, in his latest list, on the other hand, considers 
the birds of the two continents identical. 
Mr. Yarrell, a few winters since, procured a bird 
in the Leadenhall market, through the kindness of 
his friend Mr. Doubleday, which it is possible may 
turn out to be the same with the small American 
variety; of this he has given a wood-cut with a 
description, the latter of which we have used the 
liberty of copying. “ The bill is blue, equal in 
breadth throughout, the sides being parallel; the 
irides yellow ; head, cheeks, and upper parts of the 
neck, all round, rich Orleans plum-colour, but with 
more of red than purple ; lower parts of the neck, 
and upper parts of the breast, jet black ; all the 
back, scapulars, small wing-coverts, and tertials, one 
uniform tint, produced by fine black transverse lines 
on a ground colour of greyish white ; greater wing- 
coverts black ; wing primaries brownish black ; se- 
condaries white, forming the speculum, and tipped 
with black; rump and upper tail-coverts nearly 
black, tail feathers dark brownish black ; the sides 
below the wings, and the flanks, covered with fine 
grey lines, on a ground of white ; lower part of the 
breast and belly mottled with pale greyish brown 
and white ; vent dark grey, almost as black as the 
under tail-coverts ; feet like the beak, much smaller 
than those parts in the true scaup, and darker in 
colour, being of a more uniform bluish black.’’ 
The Tufted Pochard, Fuligula cristata. — 
Anas fuligula , Linn. — Anas cristata, Rag. — Ca- 
