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white ; back light brown ; shoulders and a large spot on the flanks white ; tail feathers and 

 quills cinereous ; rump black ; bill red, with the nail whitish horn colour ; legs and toes red ; 

 webs black. 



Fem. : slightly smaller than the male ; light cinereous brown, with the crown darker ; the 

 throat and sides of the neck dark cinereous ; bill and legs reddish brown. 



Callichen rufinus Brehin. Hand. der. Xat. oiler, Vo. Dent. 92-1. 



Anas rnfina Gmel. Sijst. 1. 541. 



Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 870. 



A //as capite rufo major Rail Syn. 140. 



Canard s'/ffleur, Huppe Buff- Oia. 9. 282. 



Temm. Man. 2. 864. 



Red-crested Pochard Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 554. 



Merr/oides r/ifina Eyton, Hist. R. Brit. Birds. 7 7, 



Trachea Linn. Trans. Vol. 15, tab. 15, Jiff. 2. 



Inhabits the eastern portions of the north of Europe, and migrates to the Caspian Sea, to Hungary, 

 Austria, and Turkey, and the great lakes of Switzerland ; never found on the sea. Such is the 

 account Temminck gives of the bird before us ; and we are not aware that any thing besides is 

 known concerning it, either as regards its breeding places or nest. Col. Sykes says it is rare in 

 the Deccan. 



The trachea of this species has the inferior larynx similar to that of the true pochards ; the 

 tube, however, differs much, having two flattened bulbs as in the Merganser ; the inferior one is 

 placed nearer to the inferior larynx than in the genus Mergus. 



FULIGULA VALISNERIA. 



Fu. Mas. — Dorso albo atro undulato ; collo castaneo ; capistroque atro. 

 Fu. Fem. — Capite, collo, pectoreque obscuris ; subtus alba. 



CANVAS-BACKED POCHARD. 



Male pochard, with the back white, barred with black ; neck chesnut ; collar black. 

 Fem. pochard, with the head. neck, and breast obscure; below white. 



IN. 



Length 2\ Tarsi 1| 



Bill 2f Middle toe 8 i -5th 



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