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FRANK FORESTER'S FIELD SPORTS. 
alight on the pond, without in the least suspecting the treachery 
of their kinsman. The Red-headed Duck arrives with us usually 
about the first of November—early in March it leaves for the 
North, where it breeds.”— Giraud’s Birds of Long Island. 
SCAUP DUCK. 
Anas Manila; Wils. Amer. Orn. Fuligula Manila , Scaup Duck; 
Sw. fy Rich. Scaup Duck ; Nutt. Man .— Vulgo, Broadhill. 
“ Specific Character. —The head and the neck all round, with 
the fore part of the breast and the fore part of the back black ; 
the sides of the head and the sides and hind part of the neck 
dark green, reflecting purple; length of bill, when measured 
along the gap, two inches and five-sixteenths; length of tarsi 
one inch and three-eighths ; length from the point of the bill to 
the end of the tail, nineteen inches, wing eight inches and five- 
eighths ; a broad white band crossing the secondaries, and con¬ 
tinues on the inner primaries. Adult male with the forehead, 
crown, throat and upper part of the fore-neck brownish-black ; 
sides of the head, neck, and hind-neck dark-green ; lower por¬ 
tion of the neck all round, with the upper part of the breast 
purplish-black; rest of the lower parts white, undulated with 
black towards the vent; under tail coverts blackish-brown ; tail 
short, dark-brown, margined and tipped with lighter brown; 
upper tail coverts and rump blackish-brown, middle of the back 
undulated with black and white, fore part black ; wings brown, 
darker at the base and tips, spefculum white, formed by the band 
crossing the secondaries and inner primaries; scapulars and 
inner secondaries undulated with black and white; secondary 
coverts blackish-brown, undulated with white. Female with a 
broad patch of white on the forehead ; head, neck, and forepart 
of the breast, umber brown ; upper parts blackish-brown ; ab¬ 
domen and lower portion of breast white; scapulars faintly 
marked with white. 
