1/8 ANATID^. 



Nyroca fuligula. Tufted Duck. 



Anas fuligula Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 128 : Sweden. 



Fuligula cristata (Leach) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 129; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 447. 

 Fuligula fuligula {Linn.) ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. 



1895, p. 363. 



Fuligula, ior fulicula, diminutive o{ fulix or fuliea, q. T. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Resident, nesting 

 throughout the greater part of the British Islands in suitable 

 localities, its numbers having greatly increased as a breeding- 

 species during the last twenty years. It is not known to 

 nest in the Shetland Islands, and is said to be rare in the west 

 of Scotland north of Argyllshire. It is also a winter visitor 

 in large numbers to the low coasts and inland waters. 



General Distribution. — The Tufted Duck inhabits the 

 Palsearctic reeion, breeding from about 70° N. latitude south- 

 wards to about 50° N. It nests in the Faeroe Islands and 

 from Norway, where it is not very common, eastwards to 

 eastern Siberia and Kamchatka. In winter it ranges over 

 southern Europe and north Africa as far as Abyssinia, where 

 a few are said to breed on the elevated lakes ; also to India, 

 China, and Japan, wandering to the Philippines, Borneo, and 

 even to the Pelew and Marianne Islands in the western 

 Pacific. 



Genus GLAUCION Aa7;;j, Naturl. Syst. 182c», p. 53. 

 Type : G. dangula (Linn.). 



Glatwion = y\aiiKiov, a grey-eyed bird in Athsenaus, 395C.; from yXntiicos: 

 blnish-gTey. 



Glaucion clangula. Golden-eye. 



Anas clangula Linnwus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 125 : Sweden. 



Clangula glaucion (Linn.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 131 ; 

 Salvadori, Gat. Birds B. M. xxvii. 1895, p. 376 ; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 451. 



Claiicjilla, diminutive of Clatujo •. KXayyi'i = clangor, any sharp sound. 



