DUCK. 359 



1 18. - RED-CRESTED DUCK. 



Anas rufina, Ind. Orn. ii. 870. Gm. Lin. i. 541. Pall, reise, ii. 713. Fn. Heliet. 



Tern. Man. 500. Id. Ed. 2d. 865. 

 Anas ristularis cristata, Bris. vi. ,398. /(/. Svo. ii. 405. Gerin. v. t. 587. 



cristata flavescens, it/aw. Dan. 108. t. 52. iT/c£», 135. 20. 



capite rufo major, Rail, 140. 2. Will. 279. 



Canard siffleur huppe, Bv/. ix. 182. P/. enl. 928. 



Kolben Ente, Bec/j^. Deuts. Ed. 2d. V. iv. 1021. Schmid, Vag. p. 15G. t. 129. 

 Great Red-headed Duck, Will. Engl. 364. 

 Barbary Slioveler, Sfiaiv's Trav. 254 ? 

 Red-crested Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. 545. 



THIS is a large bird ; length two feet ; weight three pounds or 

 more. Bill fine red ; irides brown ; upper part of the head and 

 neck deep testaceous red ; crown pale rufous, the feathers of it thick 

 set, standing up, and forming a pretty large globular crest; body 

 in general black, but the under parts incline to dusky ; beginning 

 of the back, between the wings, grey brown ; bastard wing paler; 

 at the base of it a transverse, lunated, white mark ; wings blackish 

 brown ; speculum white, in some surrounded with black; tail short, 

 that and the vent dark brown ; the margins of the feathers whitish ; 

 legs brown, reddish on the fore part. The female is brown, paler, 

 with a reddish bill, and without the crest. 



Inhabits the Caspian Sea, and vast lakes of the Desert of Tartary, 

 and is a solitary species: sometimes seen in the great lakes, lying 

 on the east side of the Uralian Chain, but not in the rest of Siberia. 

 I observe this in India drawings, where it is called Bhoora ; the 

 female has a dusky head ; and the male has not so fine a crest as 

 we see in the PL enl. The speculum of the wings is dusky white; 

 legs pale red, with dusky blue webs. 



This species is found in Italy, as Willughby met with it at Rome ; 

 inhabits also Switzerland, and if the same with Shaw's Red-necked 

 Shoveler, is found in Barbary. It has also been once shot in a 

 decoy in this kingdom.* 



* Mr. Edwards. 



