RED-CRESTED WHISTLING DUCK. 



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N ATA TORES. 



ANATIDM. 



THE RED-CRESTED WHISTLING DUCK. 



Fuligula rujina. 



Fuligula rujina, Red-crested Pochard, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 350. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 240. 



Mergoides EYTON, Rarer Brit. Birds, p. 77. 



Fuligula Duck, GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Anas Canard Siffleur Huppe, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. 



p. 864. 



FULIGULA. Generic Characters. Bill not longer than the head, but 

 slightly elevated at the base, depressed towards the tip ; sides parallel ; 

 both mandibles laminated, lateral edges of the upper mandible enclosing 

 the edges of the under one. Nostrils at a short distance from the base. 

 Wings rather short, pointed. Legs with the middle and outer toes longer 

 than the tarsus, which is flattened laterally ; feet large, webbed, the hind 

 toe with a broad depending membrane. 



I HAVE followed the example of several modern zoolo- 

 gists in adopting the generic term Fuligula for an exten- 



