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the scaup ducks. 
'ini’ blackish ; feet 
^'aws bSr ir^rieh n ^ membranes dusky, 
O. Hume) Tnwi T °‘' ^usky ” 
tm], 2-3^’ 17-5 inches; culmen,r75; wing, 
grey speSSgs'^nThVhn? browner than the male, with a few 
what blacker th-in /k ^ ^ ' ‘be lower back and rump some- 
but the cove ^d?^ “PPei-parts; wings as in the 
crown of head and vermiculations obsolete ; 
patch on the lorel th brown, with a large white 
nmttled, with reddish bm'^’*? "^“b a white spot; the chest 
abdomen white t in breast and 
"‘'"“led with duskv lail-coverts 
b'b as in the rm/ ‘be body reddish-brown; 
‘bewebsdu^kv»M n b''"‘ ^011 leaden-grey with 
culmen, Total length, ib l inches; 
Youn "‘"S>8 2 ; tail, 2'6; tarsus, 1-4. ' 
chin-spot. ^j'^esemble the old female, and have the white 
be distinglC h to Count Salvadori, 
be second ve?r J, ‘‘‘‘^ber coloration. In 
green glosYf ^.W.r'iale resembl^^ the adult, but has 
the breast arn and neck, and the black feathers 
covertsare morrn the black under tail- 
the lowe^man r the vermiculations 
brown colour r.r7 ^ -’ ®‘^‘*P'’’ars, and wing-coverts the dark 
Hyt.Hds ‘b- -bite. 
fPeculum whit^t^ 7 l 7 *' 7 fi having the 
is greyLCTr^'''''^^ bus no crest, and the 
black markings. ’ ''‘^rmtculated or lined across with zig- 
““rl';' » •■> '™>- visi,„r, >„<, i, 
ception of a few loSit ,-5Pr‘'"g, with the ex- 
‘be south coast of Ire'S’ It tfb “ and 
Wn in Scotland, wher^Mr A p’s? boch 
‘be nest. ^'^r. A. C. Stark states that he found 
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