TUFTED DUCK. 
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wings, and flanks, beautifully marked with fine zigzag lines of 
dusky; tail dull brown, cuneiform, and composed of fourteen 
feathers; the primaries, wing-coverts, back and scapulars, are 
glossed with green; webs of the feet black. The colour of the 
legs and feet varies: those of the figure in the plate were green- 
ish ash ; those of the specimen above described were pale yel- 
low ochre, dashed with black; and those of Mr. Bonaparte’s 
specimen were bluish ash. The above description was taken 
from a fine adult male, shot by myself on the 1st of April, 1814. 
On the 8th of March, 1815, I shot from a flock, consisting 
of five individuals, two males; and an adult female in full plu- 
mage. 
Female: Length sixteen inches and a half; bill darker than 
that of the male, without the white at its base, above the nail 
with a band of dull bluish white; beneath the eyes a spot of 
white; chin and front part of the lores white; throat spotted with 
dusky; cheeks and auriculars finely powdered with white; neck 
without the chestnut band; head, neck, breast, upper parts of the 
back, lower parts of the belly, and vent, a snuff-coloured brown; 
belly whitish; lower part of the back dusky; the under tail,-' 
coverts pencilled with fine zigzag lines; neck rather thicker 
than that of the male, but the head equally tufted; the wings, 
feet, legs, tail and eyes, resemble those parts of the male. The 
dust-like particles, which are so remarkable upon the back and 
scapulars of the male, are wanting in the female. 
In young males the head and upper part of the neck are 
purplish brown; in some tbe chestnut band of the neck is ob- 
scure. 
The stomachs of those specimens which I dissected were filled 
with gravel and vegetable food. The trachea, according to the 
observations of Mr. Bonaparte, resembles that of the fuligula. 
This species is in no respect so shy and cunning as the Scaup 
Duck, and is more easily shot. 
G. Ord, 
