]26 FULIGULA CRISTATA. 



black band at the tip including the unguis ; the feet paleish- 

 grey, with tlic webs dusky ; the iris brownish-white. There 

 is a small longitudinal crest of linear decurvcd feathers, some 

 of which are an inch and two-twelfths long. The plumage 

 is firm, and on the lower parts highly glossed. The head and 

 part of the neck are brownish -black; there is a white patch 

 dotted with black on each side margining the upper mandible, 

 and a very small triangular spot on the feathered portion of 

 the intercrural space, the feathers behind it light brown. On 

 the lower fore-neck the feathers are dusky, edged with light 

 brown, the lower with white ; those on the sides before the 

 wing greyish-brown; the bi-east white ; the sides and abdo- 

 men dusky grey variegated with white ; the hind part of the 

 sides light greyish-brown, partially dotted with whitish ; the 

 lower wing-coverts white, except the marginal, which are 

 dusky-grey. The upper parts are brownish-black, the smaller 

 wing-coverts brown, minutely dotted with whitish. The 

 white band on the wing is the same as in the adult, and the 

 tail is dusky-brown. 



Length 15|- inches; extent of wings 27; bill along the 

 ridge 1-,^, along the edge l\% ; tarsus 1^; middle toe 2, its 

 claw \. 



In this state it might be mistaken for Fuligula leucoph- 

 thalmos, as defined by M. Temminck. " Bill long ; iris 

 white ; wing-spot white tipped with black ; a white spot 

 under the bill," all which characters agree with it, excepting 

 the first. 



