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gray, as in the male, the breast brownish-white, the loral spaces 

 and chin pale-brown, the abdomen umber brown. 



" Length ] 6 inches. 



" The Tufted Duck of Europe, Fuligula cristata, is very 

 nearly allied to this species." — Audubon's Birds of A7nerica. 



By Wilson, in his American Omithology, this bird has been 

 assumed as identical with the Tufted Duck of Europe, and is 

 said to be common to both continents, which I conceive to be 

 erroneous. 



It is common on all the western waters, but is rare, though 

 not as much so but that it is perfectly well known, along the 

 Atlantic coasts, from Massachusetts to Louisiana. 



THE RUDDY DUCK. 



FuUffula Rubida ; Bonap. Anas Rubidus ; Wilson. — Vulgo, 

 Salt Water Teal. 



"Male UJ, 21 i 



*' Adult male in summer : 



'* Bill as long as the head, a little higher than broad at the 

 base, depressed and widened toward the end, which is rounded. 

 Dorsal outline straight, and declinate to the nostrils, then direct 

 and slightly concave, the sides sloping and concave at the base, 

 broadly convex toward the end, the edges soft without, about 

 forty short erect lamellae internally on each side, the unguis 

 linear-oblong, suddenly decurved and directed backward, its 

 lower part transversely expanded and sernilate, nostrils in an 

 oblong depression covered with skin, medial rather small, 

 linear-oblong, pervious ; lower mandible flattened, a little re- 

 curved, its angle very long and narrow, the laminae about a hun- 

 dred and forty, extremely small, the unguis oblong. 



" Head rather large, oblong. Eyes of moderate size. Neck 

 short and thick. Body full, much depressed. Legs short, and 

 placed rather far behind ; tibia bare for a short space ; tarsus 



