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a large and very broad nail ; maxilla very mucli depressed terminally, 

 its dei^tli at the base of the nail being only about one-fourth that at the 

 extreme base. Male with the head rufous, the pileum ornamented with 

 a very full, soft tuft or bushy crest, occupying the whole top of the head. 



FULIGULA RUFiNA (Pall.) Stephens. 



The Rufous-crested Duclc. 



Anas rufina, Pall. It. ii. App. 1773, 731, No. 28.— Gmel. S. N. i. 1788, 541. 



Branta rufina, BoiE, Isis, 1822, 564. — Gray, Cat. Brit. B. 1883, 198. 



Faligida rufina, Steph. Geu. Zool. xii. 1824, 188. — Dresser, B. Eur. pt. xxii. Oct. 

 1873. 



Nelta rufina, Kaup, Nat. Syst. 1829, 102. 



Platypus rufinus, Brehm, Yog. Deutsclil. 1831, 922. 



CalUchen rufinus, Brehm, t. c. 924. 



Mergoides rufina, Eyx. Rar. Brit. B. 1836, 57. 



Aytluja rufina, Macgill. Man. Brit. B. 1846, 191. 

 CalUchen ruficeps, Brehm, t. c. 922. 

 CalUchen subrufmus, Brehm, t. c. 924. 

 CalUchen micropus, Brehm, t. c. 925. 

 CalUchen rufescens, Brehji, Vogelfang, 1855, 379. 

 Bed-crested Pochard, Selby, Brit. Orn. ii. 350. — Dresser, I. c. 



Bed-crested Whistling Duck, Yarrell, Brit. B. ed. 2, iii. 327, fig.; ed. 3, iii. 329, fig. — 

 Gray, I. c. 



Hab. — Southern and eastern Europe, northern Africa, and India; 

 occasional in northern and central Euro^ie, and casual in the British 

 Islands; accidental in eastern U. S. (Kew York market, lioardman; 

 spec, in U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Adult ^ (57207, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Hungary, W. Schliiter). — Head and 

 upijer half of the neck delicate j)inkish cinnamon, or vinaceous-rufous, 

 the full, soft crest (occupying the entire pileum) paler and less reddish, 

 the feathers light buff at tips ; lower half of the neck (including a nar- 

 row strii)e which extends up the nape to the occiput), jugulum, breast, 

 abdomen, anal region, crissum, upper tail-coverts, and rump brownish 

 black, deepest on the neck and jugulum, and with a decided dark-green 

 gloss on the upper tail-coverts. Back and scapulars uniform light 

 umber-drab or isabella-color; wing-coverts and tertials brownish gray; 

 siieculum white basally, changing gradually into pale grayish, then suc- 

 ceeded by a rather broad subterminal bar of dusky, the tip narrowly 

 and abruptly white; four outer jirimaries with outer ends dusky; inner 

 quills pale ashy, with broad dusky ends; tail dull dark grayish. A 

 broad bar or transverse patch across anterior scapular region, anterior 

 border of the wing, lining of the wing, axillars, and a very large patch 



was based, is quite a diiferent type from Fulix (formally restricted to F. marila aud 

 its allies by Professor Baird, in 1858) and JEthyia, and should, in my opinion, be sepa- 

 rated generically. The first use of the term Branta in a generic sense was by 

 Scopoli in 1769 (for Anser hcrnicla, L., A. moschata, L., A. iorrita, L., A. alhifrons, L. — 

 a very heterogeneous assemblage, which invalidates its subsequent employment unless 

 restricted to one or another of the species named by Scopoli not already been supplied 

 with a generic name, of which, however, there appears to be none not thus provided. 



