366 axatid.t:. 



II yh rids. 



? Canard morillon c? (Fuligula cristata) X Sarcelle de la Caroline 2 

 (Aix sponsa), Geoffr. St.-Hil. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. vii. pp. 222, 

 226 (1806) ; Selys-L., Bull. Soc. Eoy. Belg. xxiii. 2, p. 21, n. 23 

 (1856); Leverh. J.f. 0. 1890, p. 225. 



Fuligula cristata X Nyroca leucophthalma, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1880, 

 p. 524 ; id. List Vert. An. 8th ed. pp. 524, 525 (1883). S. 



Fuligula cristata $ X Fuligula ferina cJ, Saund. P. Z. 1886, 

 p. 550 ; Lemrk. J. f. O. 1890, p. 225. 



Fuligula cristata X Fuligula nyroca, Leverk. I. c. 



li'uligula cristata X Fuligula marila, Leverk. I. c. 



Fuligula cristata X Anas querquedida, Leverk. I. c. 



Adult male. Head, neck, upper parts, and breast black ; occi- 

 pital feathers considerably elongated, forming a crest or tuft ; sides 

 of the head with a purple gloss ; a white spot on the chin ; back and 

 scapulars with obscure traces of pale vermiculations ; lower breast, 

 belly, sides, and flanks white ; vent and under tail-corerts black ; 

 wings black ; speculum on the secondaries white, with a black 

 band at the tip ; under wing-coverts, except the marginal ones 

 which are dusky, and axillaries white ; primaries brown-grey, with 

 the tips and the outer webs more or less blackish ; tail black : 

 bill pale blue, with the nail black ; irides brilliant golden yellow ; 

 legs and toes dark blue, the webs black. Total length about 17 

 inches, wing 8, tail 2-5, culmen 1-75, tarsus 1-12. 



Female. Crest smaller than in the male ; upper parts and upper 

 breast brown ; the underparts dull white or pale ashy brown, and 

 less clearly defined from the brown upper breast ; flanks brown ; 

 speculum as in the male ; inner secondaries glossed with green. 



Young hi first jilvmage. Closely resemble adult females, but are 

 paler brown, especially on the chin and throat, and have no metallic 

 green gloss on the innermost secondaries ; there are many white 

 feathers at the base of the bill. 



Males in first nuptial dress have white margins to the black 

 feathers of the breast, a shorter crest, no green or purple gloss oa 

 the head, and a small white spot on the chin. 



Males in moulting plumage are intermediate in colour between 

 males in first plumage and males iu first nuptial plumage (Seebohm). 



Young in down are dark brown, shading into nearly white on 

 the belly (Seehohm). 



Hah. Palsearctic Eegion from the Atlantic to the Pacific ; in the 

 Ethiopian llegion it extends as far south as Shoa, and apparently 

 breeds in the high lakes of Abyssinia ; in winter in S. China, Japan, 

 and India, but not in Ceylon or in Burmah ; accidental in the 

 Malay Archipelago (Philippines and Borneo), and in Polynesian 

 Islands (Marianne Isl. and Pelew Islands). 



a. 2 ad. St. No locahty. Old Coll. 



b, c. Pull. sk. No locality. Gould Coll. 

 d, e. (S ad. sk. Great Britain [Leadenhall Purchased. 



Market). 



f. f? imm. sk. Orkneys. H. J. Elwes, Esq. 



[P.]. 



g. $ ad. sk. Tiree, Scotland, Jan. Colonel Irby [P.]. 



