TUFTED DUCK 



NYROCA FULIGULA (Linn£) 

 (Plates 62, 63) 



Synonymy 

 Anas fuligula Linne, Systema Naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 128, 1758. 

 Anas leucotis Hermann, Tab. Affinit. Animalium, p. 161, 1783. 

 Anas glaucion Bonnaterre (nee Linne), Encyclop. Methodique, vol. 1, p. 149, pi. 



33, fig. 3, 1791. 

 Anas colymbis Pallas, Zoograph. Rosso-Asiat., vol. 2, p. 266, 1811. 

 Anas cristata Leach {nee Gmelin), Syst. Cat. Mamm. and Birds British Mus., p. 



39, 1816. 

 Nyroca fuligula Fleming, Philosophy of Zool., vol. 2, p. 260, 1822. 

 Aythya fuligula Boie, Oken's Isis, p. 564, 1822. 



Fuligula cristata Stephens, General Zoology, vol. 12, pt. 2, p. 190, 1824. 

 Platypus fuligulus Brehm, Lehrbuch d. Naturges. Europ. Vogel, vol. 2, p. 833, 1824. 

 Aythya cristata Brehm, Oken's Isis, p. 998, 1830. 



Fulix fuligula Loven, Oefvers. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Forh., Stockholm, p. 315, 1864. 

 Fuligula vulgaris Hodgson, Gray's Zool. Miscellany, p. 86, no. 373, 1844. 

 Fuligula fuligula Lichtenstein, Nomenclator Avium, p. 102, 1854. 

 Fuligula patagiata Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 381, 1855. 



Nyroca latirostris Bonaparte, Comptes Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. 43, p. 657, 1856. 

 Anas arctica "Leach" (errorim), Degland and Gerbe, Ornith. Europ., vol. 2, p. 533, 



1867. 

 Fulix cristata Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 419, 1871. 

 (Edemia cristata Dresser, Ibis, ser. 3, vol. 6, p. 420, 1876. 

 Fuligula linnei Malm, Gbteborg. och Bohuslans Fauna, p. 350, 1877. 



Vernacular Names 



English: Tufted Duck, Tufted Pochard, Crested Duck, Tufted Diver, Crested 

 Diver, Black and White Diver, Magpie Diver, Black Duck, Tufted Scaup, 

 Black Pochard, Black Widgeon, Least Widgeon, Black Poker, Tufted Widgeon, 

 Old Hardweather, Black and White Curre, Blue-billed Curre, Pied Duker, Lap- 

 mark Duck, Golden-eye, Indian Golden-eye, Brass-eyed Pocher, White-sided 

 Diver. 



German: Reiherente, Reigerente, Haubenente, Zopfente, Schopfente, Straussente, 

 Straussmoor, Schupsente, Kuppenente, Schwarze Ente, Russige Ente, Moorente, 

 Schliefente, Schwarzkopf, Fresake, Kiebitzente, Schwarztiichel, Schnelltaucher. 



