RED-CRESTED WHISTLING DUCK. 



RED-CRESTED DUCK. BED-CRESTED POCHARD. 



Anas rufina, TEMMINCK. 



Fu/igula r/ma, GOULD. SfiLBY. 



Mergoides riifina, EYTON. 



Anas A Duck. Rufina. RufusRed. 



THIS curious-looking bird is a native of the south-eastern 

 parts of Europe, and the middle and eastern portions of Asia. 

 In the former it is plentiful in Italy, especially in the south, 

 Dalmatia, the south of France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, 

 Turkey, Greece, and Hungary, in which last it is said- most 

 frequently to breed, and in the latter occurs in Persia, 

 Himalaya, and the Dukkun, in India, the south of Siberia, 

 Tartary, and about the Caspian Sea. Specimens were also 

 procured from the north of Africa by Sir Thomas Reade, 

 and from Barbary, in the same region, by Shaw. 



Its natural resorts are fresh-water lakes, rivers, ponds, pools, 

 and bogs, whether with or without the accompaniment of the 

 native forest, and to these it keeps, preferring the water to 

 the land. It appears to be but rarely seen on the sea-coast, 

 as not sharing with others of its tribe in a natural predi- 

 lection for 'the Sea! the Sea! the open Sea!' 



The first occurrence of this species in England was at 

 Boston, in Lincolnshire, where a male was shot in the month 

 of January, 1826; it was at the time in company with some 

 Wigeons. Several more were procured the same winter; some 

 of them in the London markets. Mr. E. Newman, in the 

 'Zoologist,' p. 4166, records the occurrence of another example 

 at Boston, in Lincolnshire, in January, 1854. One was shot 



