35^ BRITISH BIRDS. 
POCHARD. 
POKER, DUNBIRD, OR GREAT-HEADED WIGEON. 
(Anas ferlna, Lin. — Penelope^ le Millouln, Buff.) 
The Pochard is nineteen inches in length, and 
two feet and a half in breadth, and weighs about 
one pound thirteen ounces. The bill is of a dark 
lead colour, with the tip and fides near the nof- 
trils, black : irides fine deep yellow. The head and 
neck are of a glofly chefnut, joined to a large fpace 
of footy black which covers the breaft, and is fpread 
over the ftioulders : the lower part of the back, 
rump, tail-coverts, and vent, are alfo black: the 
reft of the plumage, both above and below, is 
wholly covered with prettily freckled {lender duiky 
threads, difpofed tranfverfely in clofe-fet zigzag 
lines on a pale ground, more or lefs fhaded off with 
afli and brown, and deepeft on the wing-coverts? 
