TUFTED DUCK. 



NATATORES. 



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ANATID^E. 



THE TUFTED DUCK. 



Fuligula cristata. 



Anasfuligula, Tufted Duck, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 249. 



., MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



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



Nyroca FLEM. Brit. An. p. 122. 



Fuligula cristata, Pochard, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 357. 



JENYNS, Brit. Yert, p. 244, 



Duck, GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Anasfuligula, Canard morillon, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 873. 



THE TUFTED DUCK is a constant and well-known winter 

 visitor to this country, frequenting our sea-coasts, estuaries, 

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

 frequently 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 other fresh waters in considerable numbers, 

 it is considered a difficult Duck to take in a decoy, on 



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