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FRANK FORESTER’S FIELD SPORTS. 
with a gibbous process at the base, of a deep orange hue. Its 
crown is of a violet-gray hue; its cheeks of the most delicate 
sea-green; the neck white; breast yellowish-buff, and lower 
parts almost black. Upper parts and wings dusky, with the 
exception of the fore part of the back, the upper part of the 
wings, and a patch on each side of the rump, which are white ; 
legs dull-orange. 
Length to the end of tail 25 inches, to end of wings 23. 
The rarity of this bird renders farther description unneces 
sary. 
THE WESTERN DUCK. 
Fuligula Dispar. 
This gaudy-colored, parrot-tinted green and white fowl, with 
an orange-colored belly and blue legs, is unknown to the eastern 
side of this continent, and is so rare on the western, except in 
the highest latitudes, that the figure contained in Mr. Audu¬ 
bon’s invaluable work on American Birds was not done from 
an American specimen, but from one stuffed in the museum at 
Norwich in England, which was killed off Yarmouth, in the year 
1830. 
It is only mentioned here from the possibility, that by the 
growing mildness and increasing change of temperature, this 
bird may be drawn down to our shores. At present it is 
scarcely a bird, far less game , of the United States. 
With this bird ends the list of the Sea Ducks of the United 
States of America; but inasmuch as I omitted, in my mention 
of the Inland or Fresh-water Ducks, the Widgeon— Anas 
Americana —which, though not properly a sea Duck, is rarely 
found in the interior, even in the western States, although they 
do visit the waters of the Ohio, and the adjacent ponds, keep¬ 
ing company, however, even there with the Pintails and 
