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Subfamily FurieutinaE: Sea Ducks. 
145. Rufous-crested Duck (WNetia rvfina). 
Range.—Southeastern Europe and. central Asia, south in winter to India; casual in northern Europe 
and on Long Island, N. Y. 
Names.—There are no vernacular names for this species in America. In French 
books it is called canard siffleur huppé (crested whistling duck) and milouin huppé 
(crested pochard). 
146. Redhead (Nyroca americana ®). (Fie. 13.) 
Range.—North America. Breeds from southern British Columbia, central Alberta, central Saskatche- 
wan, and southwestern Keewatin (N. W. T.) south to southern California, Utah, southwestern Nebraska, 
southern Minnesota, and southern Wisconsin; winters from southern British Columbia, Utah, New Mexico, 
Kansas, Illinois, Maryland, Delaware, and Massachusetts south to southern Lower California, central 
Mexico, and Florida; accidentalin Jamaica; in migration casual in Alaska and regularly on the Atlantic 
coast north to southern Labrador. 
Fig. 13.—Redhead. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—Redhead. 
In local use —Canard mulet (mule duck), canard téte rouge (red-headed duck), 
canard violon (fiddle duck), fiddler, fiddler duck (La.); red-headed broadbill (Long 
Id., N. Y.); red-headed raft-duck (N. C.); redneck (Md., D. C.); violon (violin, 
fiddle) (La.). 
Geographic index.—D. C., redneck; La., canard mulet, canard téte rouge, canard 
violon, fiddler, fiddler duck, violon; Md., redneck; N. Y., red-headed broadbill; 
N. C., red-headed raft-duck. 
BOOK NAMES. 
American pochard, American redhead duck, canard 4 téte rousse (red-headed duck), 
canard milouin 4 téte rousse (red-headed pochard duck), dosgris (grayback, applied in 
error by Audubon—see Nos. 148 and 149), fall duck, grayback, milouin (pochard), 
milouin 4 téte rousse (red-headed pochard), pochard, raft-duck, red-headed duck. 
Washington canvasback (facetious). 
146.1 European Pochard (Aithyia ferina). 
Range.—Iceland, northern Europeand Asia, wintering as far south as Egypt, India, and China; has been 
taken on the Pribilof Islands, Alaska. 
Names.—Called also in Great Britain, pochard, poker, redheaded widgeon, and a 
number of other names; and in France milouin (specific vernacular name for the 
species) and rouget (the red). 
6 Marila americana. 
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