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Nyroca fuligula. TUFTED DUCK. 



Anas fuligula Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 128: Sweden. 



Fuligula cristata (Leach} ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 129 ; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 447. 

 Fuligula fuligula (Linn.) ; Salvador^ Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. 



1895, p. 363. 

 Ftll'igula, for fulicula, diminutive of fulix or fulica, q.v. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Resident, nesting 

 throughout the greater part of the British Islands in suitable 

 localities, its numbers having greatly increased as a breeding- 

 species during the last twenty years. It is not known to 

 nest in the Shetland Islands, and is said to be rare in the west 

 of Scotland north of Argyllshire. It is also a winter visitor 

 in large numbers to the low coasts and inland waters. 



General Distribution. The Tufted Duck inhabits the 

 Palsearctic region, breeding from about 70 N. latitude south- 

 wards to about 50 N. It nests in the Faeroe Islands and 

 from Norway, where it is not very common, eastwards to 

 eastern Siberia and Kamchatka. In winter it ranges over 

 southern Europe and north Africa as far as Abyssinia, where 

 a few are said to breed on the elevated lakes ; also to India, 

 China, and Japan, wandering to the Philippines, Borneo, and 

 even to the Felew and Marianne Islands in the western 

 Pacific. 



Genus GLAUCION Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. 1829, p. 53. 

 Type : G. clangnla (Linn.). 



GlaHcton = y\avKiov, a grey-eyed bird in Athaenaus, 395 C. ; from yXawicos: 

 bluish-grey. 



Glaucion clangula. GOLDEN-EYE. 



Anas Clangula Linnums, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 125 : Sweden. 



Clangula glaucion (Linn.) B. O. 17. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 131 ; 

 Salvador*, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. 1895, p. 376 ; Sounders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 451. 



Clttngftla, diminutive of Clunga : K\ayy>i = cl<inyor. any sharp sound, 



