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Japanese Islands; but whether it be a resident or only a winter visitor 

 there seems to be no evidence to determine. Captain Blakiston shot 

 a single example at Hakodadi (Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 176), appa- 

 rently the first recorded from Japan ; and there are four examples 

 in the Pryer collection from Yokohama. 



The Pochard winters in the British Islands as well as in Japan, 

 and breeds in subarctic Europe and Southern Siberia. 



250. FULIGULA CRISTATA. 

 (TUFTED DUCK.) 



Anas cristata, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mauim. &c. Brit. Mas. p. 39 (1816). 



The Tufted Duck has white axillaries. Its secondaries are white, 

 broadly tipped with black. Its under tail-coverts are black (adult 

 male) or brown. It has very little white on the lores, and seldom 

 any trace of white vermiculations on the back or scapulars. 



Figures : Dresser, Birds of Europe, vi. pi. 437. 



The Tufted Duck was probably found by S teller in the Kurile 

 Islands (Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 266). It is a spring and 

 autumn visitor to Yezzo, and may possibly breed there, but in 

 Southern Japan it is only known as a winter visitor (Blakiston and 

 Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 214). There is an example in the Swinhoe col- 

 lection from Hakodadi, obtained by Captain Blakiston in September ; 

 I have an example sent me by Captain Blakiston from the same 

 locality procured in May (Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 22) ; and there are 

 five in the Pryer collection from Yokohama. The examples obtained 

 by the Siebold Expedition were probably procured at Nagasaki 

 (Temmiuck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, p. 128). 



The breeding-range of the Tufted Duck extends from the Atlantic 

 to the Pacific. 



It is represented on the American Continent by a nearly allied 

 species, Fuligula coUaris, which has a chestnut collar round the neck, 

 and further differs from its Eurasian ally in having a shorter crest 

 and a pale slate-grey wing-speculum. 



