57" 



*) 



FULIGULA CBISTATA. 



(TUFTED DUCK.) 



Anas glaiicium minus, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 411, pi. xxxvii. fig. 1 (1760). 



Anas fuligula, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 207 (1766). 



Le Morillon, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ix. p. 227, pi. xv. (1783). 



Le petit Morillon, Buff. torn. cit. p. 231 (1783). 



Anas cristata, Leach, Syst. Cat. M. & B. Brit. Mus. p. 39 (1816). 



Nyroca fuligula (L.), Flem. Phil, of Zool. ii. p. 260 (1822). 



Aythya fuligula (L.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 564. 



Fuligula cristata (Leach), Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii. pt. 2, p. 190 (1824). 



Platypus fuligulus (L.), C. L. Brehm, Lehrb. d. Naturg. eur. Vog. ii. p. 833 (1824). 



Aythya cristata (Leach), C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 916 (1831). 



Le Morillon, French ; Negrinha, Portuguese ; Moretta, Italian ; Braimla, Maltese ; Reiher- 

 ente, Haubenente, Schopfente, German ; Kuifeend, Dutch ; Troldancl, Vibeand, Topand, 

 Danish ; Topand, Norwegian ; Vigg, Swedish ; Jouhisotka, Finnish ; Tschemett, Russian. 



Figurce notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, PL Enl. 1001 ; Werner, Atlas, Palmipedes, pi. 57; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. 47, 

 Suppl. taf. 27; Frisch, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 170, 171 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 48. fig. 11, 

 taf. 51. fig. 1 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 310 ; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 62. fig. 3 ; 

 Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 370 ; id. B. of G. Brit. v. pi. 23 ; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pi. 312 ; 

 Roux, Orn. Prov. pis. 375, 376. 



cJ ad. capite, collo, pectore et corpore supra nitide nigris : occipite cristato : capite et collo purpureo nitentibus : 

 dorso, scapularibus et tectricibus alarum punctis albidis minutissimis irroratis : remigibus primariis 

 nigris, intus versus basin ci nereis, secundariis albis nigro terminatis : pectore postico et abdomine albis, 

 subcaudalibus nigris : hypochondriis griseis albo tenuissime undulatis : rostro pallide plumbeo, nigro 

 terminato : iride flava : pedibus plumbeis olivaceo tinctis, membrana, natatoria nigri. 



2 ad. capite, collo, pectore et corpore supra sordide rufescenti-fuscis vix purpureo tinctis : abdomine griseo 

 ferrugineo-fusco intermixto : crista occipitali breviore. 



Adult Male in winter (Thames, 25th March 1871). Head, neck, breast, and upper parts generally glossy- 

 black, the head having a long crest and glossed with purple ; back with indistinct vermiculations on 

 some of the lateral feathers ; primaries blackish on the outer web and at the tip, and greyish on the 

 inner webs ; short secondaries white, tipped with black ; inner secondaries black ; underparts below the 

 breast white, on the lower abdomen washed with grey ; under tail-coverts black ; bill lead-blue, tipped 

 ■with black; iris yellow; legs dull olive-plumbeous, with blackish webs. Total length about 15 inches, 

 culmen 1"8, wing 8 - 2, tail 2*8, tarsus 1*5. 



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