A r J TA TORES. 



TUFTED DUCK. 



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AN AT ID M. 



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THE TUFTED DUCK. 



Fuligula Cristata. 



Anas fuligula, Tufted Duck, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 249. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



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



Nyroca FLKM. Brit. An. p. 122. 



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



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 244. 



Diick, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xii. 



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



THE TUFTED DUCK is a constant and well-known winter 

 visiter 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 



