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narrower sijeculum; while the primaries of Querquedula are narrower and more 

 pointed. Altogether the wing of Querquedula is that of a bird of greater flying- 

 powers. The present species is very distinct; its nearest affinities are perhaps 

 with Q. discors (L.) of N. America and, in winter, the West Indies and some 

 parts of S. America; the latter has the lesser and middle wing-coverts light blue 

 and, in the male, a white crescentic patch down the face, but no such mark 

 along the sides of the head and nape as in Q. circia. 



GENUS NYROCA Flem. 



This genus may be distinguished from the preceding Celebesian Ducks by 

 its hallux which is lobated as markedly as that of a Grebe. The bill is broad 

 and flat, longer than the tarsus; the outer toe is equal in length to the middle 

 one. Of cosmopolitan distribution. 



^ 374. NYROCA FULIGULA (L.). 



Tufted Duck. 



a. Anas fuligula (1) Linn., S. N. J 766, I, 207; (2) Steere, List Coll B. & M. Philipp. Is. 



1890, 27. 



b. Anas cristata (1) Leach (nee Gm.), Syst. Oat. M. & B. Br. Mus. 1816, 39. 

 Nyroca fuligula (1) Flem., Phil, of Zool. 11, 260 (1822). 



c. Fuligula cristata (1) Steph., Gen. Zool. XII, 2, 190 (1824); (2) Finscli, Journ. Mus. 



Godef. 1875, VTU, 40; (III) Dresser, B. Europe VI, 573, pi. 437 (1879); (4J 

 Hume, Str. F. 1879, IX, 115; (5) Everett, Ibis 1890, 263; (6) Seeb., B. Japan. 

 1890, 255; (7) Styan, Ibis 1891, 328, 497; (8J De La Touebe, Ibis 1892, 492. 



d. Morillon des Isles Mariannes (1) Less., Tr. d'Om. 1831, 632 (fide Salvador!). 



e. Fuligula fuligula (1) Licht, Nomencl. Av. 1854, 102; (2) Salvad., Cat. B. 1895, 



XXVn, 363. 



f. Fulix cristata (1) Swinh., P. Z. S. 1871, 419; (2) David & Oust, Ois. Chine 1877, 508; 



(3) Tacz., Faun. Ora. Sib. Orient. 1893, n, 1167. 



g. Aythya fuligula (1) Stejn., Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, Nr. 29, p. 160. 

 h. Nyroca cristata (1) Newt., Diet. B. 1894, 736. 



For further synonymy and references cf. Salvador! e 2. 



Figures and descriptions. The standard works on Bu-ds of the countries of Eui-ope; Dresser 



c III; Taczanowski f 3; Salvador! e 2; etc. 

 Adult male. Upper surface, breast and under tail-coverts black; back and scapulars 



duskier, finely peppered with whitish specks; a long decurved crest; lower breast, 



sides and abdomen white; thighs dusky; secondaries white, tipped with black; 



unexposed part of inner primaries whitish (rf, Saxony — Nr. 10454). 



"Bill lead-blue, tipped with black; iris yellow; legs dull ohve-plumbeous, with 



blackish webs" (Dresser III). 

 Female. The black parts in the male replaced by brown, darkest on the lower back, more 



ferruginous on the face and breast, palest on anterior parts of cheeks; scarcely 



any crest; abdomen and sides with browi intermixed with the white ($, Pillnitz, 



Saxony — Nr. 12429). 



Meyer t Wiglesworth, Birds of Celebes (Dec. l:lili, 18'J7). Ill 



