TUFTED DUCK. 



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NATATORES. 



ANATID.E. 



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THE TUFTED DUCK. 



Anas fuligula. Tufted Duck, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 249. 

 ,, „ ,, ,, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 386. 

 Flem. Brit. An. p. 122. 

 Pochard, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 357. 

 ,, ,, „ ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 244. 



,, ,, ,, Duck, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xii. 



Anas fuligula, Canard mm-illon, Temm. Man. d'Oinith. vol. ii. p. 873. 



Nyroca , , 

 Fuligula cristata. 



The Tufted Duck is a constant and well-known winter 

 visiter to this country, frequenting our sea coasts, estuaries, 

 and lakes, where it generally remains till March. It is fre- 

 quently seen in company with the Pochard, the Scaup, the 

 Golden Eye, and other oceanic ducks on our shores, but, 

 occasionally, also in small parties, and sometimes in pairs only. 

 It is a plump and short bird, depressed in form, swimming 

 low in the water ; and though it frequents our rivers and 



