RED-CHESTED POCHARD. 
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thers of a uniform colour, but edged with a narrow 
line of black as in the goosanders ; on the belly tho 
dark waving becomes much obliterated, and on the 
vent the ground colour shades to blackish grey. We 
have seen a variety with all the colours of a pale 
tint, or what might have been called a cream colour, 
yet having the colours marked in their particular 
places. 
The Red-crested Pochard, Fdligula? hufina. 
— .Inns rujina , Pall. — Fuligula rujina , Steph., 
Selby , &c. — Mergoldes rujina , Eyton. — Red-crested 
Duck or Pochard of British writers. — We place 
the generic name here with a mark of doubt, the 
species being of a somewhat aberrant form, though 
perhaps only typifying the goosander in its own fa- 
mily, both by the crest and form of the head and bill, 
and by the aspect of the female, as well also as par- 
tially by the formoftlie trachea; the habits, however, 
are not known, and it is a rare bird, not only in 
this country, but elsewhere, so far as has yet been 
discovered. 
This handsome species was first noticed as a 
British bird by Mr. Yarrell, who gave a notice 
in the Zoological Journal of a male shot near 
Boston while feeding on fresh water in company 
with widgeons, and states that others were pro- 
cured during the same winter in the London mar- 
kets. While since that, a specimen has now and 
then been obtained in different parts of the south of 
