TUFTED DUCK 
Nyroca fuligula (Linnaeus) 
Anas fuligula, Linn., Syst. Nat., x. ed., i. p. 128 (1758). Naumann, &c. 
Anas glaucium minus, Briss. Orn., vi. p. 411, pi. xxxvii. fig. i (1760). 
A7tas fuligula, Linn., Syst. Nat, xii. ed., i. p. 207 (1766). Schlegel and others. 
Le Morillon, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois,, ix. p. 227, pi. xv. (1783). 
Anas cristata. Leach, Syst. Cat. M. and B. Brit. Mus., p. 39 (1816). 
Nyroca fuligula (L.) Fleming, Phil, of ZooL, ii. p. 260 (1822). 
Aythya fuligula (L.) Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 564. 
Fuligula cristata (Leach), Staph, in Shaw's Gen. Zool., xii. pt. 2, p. 190 (1824). Saunders, Dresser, 
and others. 
Platypus fuligulus (L.) C. L. Brehm, Lehrb. d. Naturg. Eur. Vog., ii. p. 833 (1824). 
Aythya cristata (Leach), C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutsch, i. p. 916 (1831). 
Fuligula fuligula, Licht. Nomencl. Av., p. 102 (1854). Salvadori, Collett, Stuart Baker, &c. 
Fulix cristata, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 419 ; Hume, Str. Feath., i. p. 265 (1873) ; Prevaldsky, p. 164 
(1891). 
Nyroca fuligula, Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas (1900); Blanford, Fauna, Brit. India, iv. p. 463. 
Local Names. — Tufted Diver, Crested Diver, Black Duck, Tufted Scaup, Black Pochard, Least Wigeon 
(Kent), Black Poker, Tufted Wigeon, Tufted Pochard, Old Hardweather, Black and White Diver, 
Pied Duker, Lapmark Duck (Pennant) {English) ; Lach an Squmain, Squmalach, {Gaelic) ; Morillon, 
Jaffre, JafFre noir, Huppe, Morette, Boni negre {French) ; Reiherente, Haubenente, Schopfente 
{German)', Negrinha negretta, negro {Portuguese); Canade moninegro, Anade de Cresta, Pelucon, 
Coqumero, Morell, Capellat, Pato {Spanish) ; Moretta, Campanato Stampanato, Canard pegonnie, 
Moetta do Suffo, Bastardone, Agootinella (female) Muretta, morettone {Italian) ; Kuifeend, Kam- 
duiker {Dutch) ; Braimla {Maltese) ; Cruka Ribolovka {Montenegrin) ; Tschernett, Tscherneely, 
Retschnewaja, Tschernaja, Chochlatuja, Chochlatisch {Russian); Kaczaa-Czernika {Polish); 
Dongus-giri {Tartar); Bubos recza {Hungarian); Topand {Norwegian); Vigg, Viggand, Tofsand, 
Martigge, Hagerand {Swedish) ; Troldand, Vibeand, Topand {Danish) ; lonhisotka, Vartti, Narsku, 
Varia, Vikio {Finnish); Kinkjroha jiro-gamo {fapanese); Suracah {Arabic); Krunata, Crna norva 
{Bosnian) \ Patka Capljarka, Patka Krunata {Croatian) ; Kachna chocolata {Czech) ; Cruinka 
{Dalmatian), 
Egg. — Eggs rather coarse in texture, with some gloss ; colour yellowish-brown. 
Sometimes with greenish tinge. Shape frequently a much elongated ellipse or long oval. 
Average size of 150 eggs, 59.0x40.9 mm. Max. 65.9x46.3 and 63.9x47.2, min. 53x38 
(or in inches 2.32 x 1.61 inch) (F. C. R. J.). 
The number of eggs in a clutch usually ranges from 8 or 9 to 10, but at times much 
larger numbers are found. R. J. Ussher has recorded a nest with 14 from Ireland, and 
in May 1899 Mr. Malloch of Perth sent me a photo of a nest high up on the old 
castle at Loch Leven which also contained 14 eggs. The Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain has met 
with clutches of 11, 12, 15, 16, and 18, but the last seemed certainly to be the produce of 
two ducks. The late T. E. Buckley found clutches of 16 and 17 in Caithness. Newton in 
the Ootheca mentions 21 eggs as found in one nest, and Jourdain found a duck sitting on 
a pile of 28 eggs at Osmaston, Derbyshire, which of course she was quite unable to cover, 
but in this case about five ducks were laying in one nest. Stuart Baker speaks of 40 
eggs as found in one nest, but gives no details. 
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