THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
and southwards to Northern California, North Dakota, and Lake Michigan. 
In winter it ranges southwards to Mexico, Guatemala and the West Indies. 
This species was first described by Donovan [cf. “ Brit. Birds”, vi, pi. 147 
(1809)] from a specimen found in Leadenhall Market, and which was 
said to have been taken in Lincolnshire. It seems fairly certain that this 
unknown species could not have been imported to England, and that the 
bird must have been a wild example. I have therefore included it in my 
list of British birds, and cannot understand why it should hitherto have 
been omitted. My much valued friend, the late Mr Howard Saunders, had 
overlooked it until I called his attention to Donovan’s work. Species with 
far less claim than the ring -necked duck have been admitted to the British 
list. 
TUFTED DUCK 
FULIGULA FULIGULA 
(Plate XXX, Fig. 5) 
Fuligula cristata, Gould, Birds Europe, v, pi. 370 (1837) ; Dresser, Birds Europe, vi, p. 573, 
pi. 437 (1879) ; Hume & Marshall, Game Birds Ind., iii, p. 277, pi. 37 (1880) ; Lilford, Col. 
Fig. Brit. Birds, part xiii, pi. (1890) ; Saunders, III. Man. Brit. Birds, p. 447 (1899). 
Fuligula fuligula, Salvador!, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus., xxvii, p. 363 (1895). 
DULT male. — General colour of the head, neck, upperparts 
and upper breast black; the occipital feathers much 
/ lengthened, and forming a conspicuous crest or tuft of 
loose plumes more than two -and -a -half inches in length; 
£ the head and sides of the neck with a purple gloss ; the 
^^back and scapulars indistinctly and very finely vermicu- 
lated with whitish; lower breast, belly, sides and flank white; thighs, 
vent and under tail-coverts black; wings black, the inner primary and 
outer secondary quills partly white, or white tipped with black, the 
long inner secondaries glossed with dark greenish; outer primary quills 
blackish on the outer web and tip, brownish on the inner web, and shading 
into white towards the margin; axillary plumes white; tail black. Iris 
golden-yellow; bill bluish-grey with a black nail; legs and toes slate- 
blue, webs black. Total length about 16 inches; bill 16 inch; wing 7 5 
inches; tail 2 * 3 inches; tarsus 1 * 4 inch. 
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