882 Birds of Celebes: Anatidae. 



Changing plumage. Male undergoing the post-nuptial moult, oi' young assuming 

 the adult male dress. Browner than the adult male; forehead, face and chin 

 blacldsh; neck pale dull brown (broccoli-brown); upper breast blackish, the feathers 

 terminally edged with white; wing 204 nun; tail ca. 45; tarsus 37; middle toe and 

 claw 59; exposed culmen 39 (Celebes [GorontaloJ: Riedel, 1875 — C 257). 



Young [male]. Brown like the female; forehead and face blacldsh; the white under-parts 

 marked with indistinct bars and streaks; wing 205 mm; exposed culmen 38 (Celebes: 

 Eiedel, 1875 — C 256). 



Young in down. See, Dresser c ///. 



Eggs. Like all Ducks' eggs, but rather dark with a tint of clay-colour: size about 57 X 4(t 

 (Uleaboi'g, Lappland). 



Nest, Chiefly composed of the dark brown down of the bird, bits of grass-stalk, etc. inter- 

 mixed; placed on the ground near the water. 



Distribution. "Palaearctic Region from the Atlantic to the Pacific; in the Etliiopian Region 

 it extends as far south as Shoa, and apparently breeds in the liigh lakes of Abyssinia; 

 in winter in South China, Japan and India, but not in Ceylon or in Burmah; acci- 

 dental in the Malay Archipelago (Philippines and Borneo), and in Polynesian Is- 

 lands: Marianne Islands and Pelew Islands" (Salvadori e 2). PhiUppines — Luzon 

 (Maitland-Heriot e 2], Basilan (Steere a 2); Labuan (Everett c 5, e 2); North 

 Celebes — Gorontalo (Riedel in Dresden Mus.); Marianne Is. (Quoy & G-aimard d 1, 

 c 2); Pelew Is. (Tetens c 2). 



The Tufted Duck is now recorded for the first time from Celebes, the two 

 specimens in the Dresden Museum from Dr. Riedel, which were most probably 

 shot on the Lake of Limbotto, being the only ones as yet known from the island. 

 Its nearest breeding grounds known are in South-east Siberia; it is a winter 

 visitor in China and Southern Japan. In Europe also, as is shown by Dresser's 

 studies, it is in general a northern species in summer, breeding abundantly in 

 Finland and North Russia. Further south it is much rarer in the breeding 

 season; it is known to nest in two or three spots in England and Scotland, and 

 more plentifully in North Germany. Certainly one of its southernmost nesting 

 stations is Saxony, where, though the eggs (at this moment) have not yet been 

 taken, it breeds in one or two places — among them, on two of the fish-ponds 

 at Moritzburg near Dresden (see Meyer & Helm, VII. — X. Jahresber. orn. Beob.- 

 stat. Kgr. Sachsen, 1896, p. 131). 



The male of the present species may be easily recognised at a great dis- 

 tance by its crest, black back and breast, and white belly. Its form is short 

 and compact, and it is a more incessant diver than its allies on fre.sh waters. 

 N. marila is distinguishable by its grey back and crestless head, N. novaezealandiae 

 by having hardly any exposed white on the secondaries, no crest, and the 

 abdomen brown. Count Salvadori separates these species and two American 

 forms generically from Nyroca, but his genus Fuligula is one of those forms 

 calling for a close comparison with Nyroca before the differences can be seen, 

 and we are very doubtful whether it ought to be separated even subgenerically. 



