which, according to the figure accompanying Mr. Newton’s paper above referred to, are of a greenish stone- 
colour, with a few dirty stains all over the surface, probably obtained by contact with the materials upon 
which they are laid. They measure two inches and three-eighths in length, and one inch and five-eighths 
in breadth. 
The male has the head and upper part of the neck white ; between tbe bill and tbe eye on each 
side a patch of sea-green, which nearly unite on the forehead ; each eye surrounded by a ring of 
black, broader behind than in front ; on the occiput a broad band of verditer green ; from the lower 
mandible down the centre of the throat a streak of blackish brovm, which very nearly approaches the broad 
band of deep bluish black encircling the base of the throat, and which is united behind to the bluish- 
black of the baek and upper tail-coverts ; below tbe bluish-black neck-collar a crescentic mark of white ; 
wing-coverts Avhite ; primary wing-feathers and tail deep brown ; secondaries and tertiaries white on the 
inner, and deep blue on the outer web ; narrow inner web of the scapularies white, the broader outer web 
deep blue ; breast and abdomen chestnut, fading into buff on the flanks, and deepening into blackish brown 
in the centre ; vent and under tail-coverts very dark brown ; just before each wing a few of the white 
feathers of the sides of the breast are tipped with black, forming a small oblong patch ; bill deep olive, with 
a yellower nail ; irides brown ; feet dark olive-brown, the webs darker, inclining to black. 
The female, as stated by Mr. Yarrell, so closely resembles the females of the Eider and King Ducks, that 
the only difference necessary to be noticed is that the greater coverts and secondaries are tipped with white, 
forming two bars, between which is a bluish-black speculum. 
The front figures in the Plate represent two males, the size of life, with a reduced figure of the female in 
the distance, and were drawn from specimens obtained from the Waranger Fjord by Mr. Alfred Newton. 
