are noticed in the paragraph at page 202._ The necessity for
this distinction has been acknowledged by M. Temminck himself,
and the grounds for the separation are stated in the note
below,* from the 68th No. of the Planches Coloriés, Art. 406.
I had the pleasure^ of first noticing*! this handsome ' Duck
as an occasional visiter to this country, in January 1826~
when a male was shot near Boston, while feeding on freshwater
in company with some Wigeons. Though a well-
known species, inhabiting the. eastern parts of Eüïope, it had
not previously been recorded to have been killed in England.
During the same winter several others were obtained ; more
than one occurred in the London markets, ancL.were eagerly
purchased for collectors. One was Ste’cured by Mr. Bartlett,
as noticed in the Naturalist, vol. iii. p. 4 2 0 Sitrbe them à ^bci-
men has been killed at-Yarmouth, another abColche^ter, now in
the Museum of the Cambridge Philosophical Society; and-the
female represented-by Mr. Could, in the Sixth Part of-his Birds
of Europe, is in the (collection of the Hofri W .T. T. Fiennes.
This specimen was killed out of a flock of eightew; '^i- the
Thames,-near that gentleman’s1 estate^at-Erith -in-Kent.
M. Vieillot says this species hasheen t^ e n r though rarely,
in France. I t has bèemlnMiïded in two^orithfee HiékoîteU
of The Birds Germany. I t is mentioned bycM* ;N-ecMsc in
his published notice of the Birds of Geneva plias beemfound
more than once in different parts -of Switzerland-%nd? Provence
; has been seen at- Genoa^fr and" iSvincludedfjây M-.
Savi, in his Ornithology of Italy. , Our. countryman Wil-
lughby, it-will, be recollected^ obtainedrthis Duck in the mar*
“ Nous avons cm necessaire de,,sefeîrex des canards proprement ®s,ketr
de réunir, tontes ces espèces à doigt 'postérieur garnLcftm" fUdîmVnt de membrane,
vu qtienfe" squelette 3e ^es oiseaüx nous offre des differences'mafqnés!êt'
constantes ; que leur manière de vivre-et le choix defe-alimenjf-'rië sont pas les
mêmes que chez les canards, à doigt postérieur lis^e^etjque les carâctèresWaciles
a saisir fournissent de très-bons moyens pour établir la difference générique
entre ces deux groupes.”
t Zoological Journal, vol. ii. page 492.
ket at Rome.* The Zoological Society has received specimens
from North Africa, sent by Sir Thomas Reade, and it
was formerly-noticed in Barbary, by Shaw, in his published
Travels! in that country.’ It i£ found in Austria, Hungary,
and' «Turkey. Russian naturalists have observed that it is
very comm® in winter at Bakou, on the Caspian Sea. According
to Dr. Latham, it inhabits the vast lakes of the desert
of Tartary-p isTsdmetimes seen on the great lakes lying on
.the east side of the mountains of the Uralian chain, but not
elsewhere in ,Siberia. ■. Mr. Gould mentions, in his Birds of
Europe- that H has received specimens from. the Himalaya,
and&Colonel Sykes in eludes- it among his Birds of the Duk-
huri^.but ,spates, that-it- is rare in that part of India. -
Of the habits,-:>and‘ nidiffcatioruof this epeeies little is known.
The.-eg'S' has been described as, of a uniform olive-brown, two
inclm&two'linl^.imdength, and one inch six lines in breadth.
The food is ;&tatedlto fre; shell-fish and aquatic vegetables.
I-mAheTadfflt^maleJthe'beak is vermilion-red; the nail
ifides reddish-brown ; the whole, of the head, and
the upper J)#Tj6f.-the neck all round rieh reddish-chestnut,
the^feakhnrsibn thp§Top»«ofthe -head considerably elongated,
forming, a conspicuous crest,;, the back qf thp neck below,
andftlihd upper'taih^verts- d ark brown ;, the back, and a por-
tion|-of the sca-pularies, wing-eoverts, and tertials, yellowish-
brown ;~ a white» patch on^tlie carpal joint of the wing, and
another- .o,v®$ thp||©int; greater coverts ash-brown ; wing-
primaries,-,?and tail&feathers greyish-brown; thd secondaries
with the gfuter Webs- ivhite, forming a speculum; front of the
nPek, breast, belly, an<| under tail-coverts rich dark brown ;
flanks w h rt^ le g s and toes vermiliou-Ted, inter-
(digital membrane almost5 black.
- sjThe^i whole^den^th twenty-two inches. From the carpal
joint-to the end ||ftthe first quill-feather, which is the longest
in the wing, ten inches and a half.
VVillughby, Ora. p. 364.