TUFTED POCHARD. NATATORES. FULIGULA. 357 



colour, with the nail black. Around the base of the 

 bill is a broad band of white. The rest of the head and 

 the upper part of the neck are deep umber-brown, 

 glossed on the sides with green. Lower part of the 

 neck and breast having the basal part of the feathers 

 broccoli-brown ; the tips of the former being deeply mar- 

 gined with clear yellowish-brown, and those of the 

 breast with white. Belly and abdomen white. Sides, 

 flanks, and vent hair-brown, marbled with zigzag lines 

 of white and darker brown. Mantle and scapulars 

 brownish-black, finely mottled with zigzag lines of 

 white. Tertials black, tinged with olive-green. Spe- 

 culum as in the male bird. Quills and tail blackish- 

 brown, with a glossy lustre. The young males re- Young, 

 semble the adult females till after the first general 

 moult. In the young females the colours are less dis- 

 tinct, and the back is nearly destitute of the zigzag 

 black and white lines. 



TUFTED POCHARD. 



FULIGULA CRIST AT A, Stepk. 



PLATE LXV. 



Fuligula cristata, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 12. 190. 



Anas Fuligula, Linn. Syst. 1. 207- 4>5.GmeL Syst. 1. 543 Lath. Ind. Orn. 



2. 869. sp. 90. 



Anas cristata, Rail Syn. 142. A. 

 Nyroca Fuligula, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 122. sp. 184. 

 Glaucium minus, Briss. Orn. 6. 411. pi. 37- f. 1. 

 Le Morillon et le Petit Morillon, Buff. Ois. 9. 227. and 231 Id. PI. 



Enl. 1001. 



Canard Morillon, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 873. 



Bheiher-ente, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 997. M<?^r,Tasschenb. Deut. 2. 519. 

 Tufted Duck, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 585. No. 274 Arct. Zool. 2. 573. 9 



Alton's Birds, 1. t. 95 Will. (Angl.) 365. 73 Lath. Syn. 6. 540. 79 



Id. Sup. 2. 355 Id. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 4. 117 Lewin's Br. Birds, 7. 



257 Mont. Ornith. Diet. 1. and Sup Bewick's Br. Birds, ed. 1826, 



p. t. 370. 



Anas Scandiaca, Gmel Syst. 1. 520 Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 859. sp. 68. ) 

 Morillon, Briss. Orn. 406. i. 36. 1. and 2 ? V Yo ung 



Lapmark Duck, Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 576. M Lath. Syn, 6. 515. 60. J 



