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FERRUGINOUS DUCK. 
and by Mr. Jerdon it is said to be “ tolerably com- 
mon throughout the peninsula in the cold weather.” 
Temminck gives Japan to it. It is not an Ameri- 
can species. Mr. Yarrell states that the tufted 
ducks bred in the gardens of the Zoological Society 
in 1839, 40, and 41. 
The head, adorned with a long and graceful crest, 
is rich blackish groen with a strong purple gloss ; 
the neck, upper back, and breast are deep black, in 
the centre of the latter having the feathers tipped 
with grey; the back, scapulars, and tcrtials, are 
also black, very minutely spotted with yellowish 
white, giving a subdued tint to those parts ; the 
rump, tail, under tail-covers, and thighs, are black, 
quills of same colour greyish in the centre of the 
feather ; the greater covers pure white, with a 
broad black tip ; belly vent and flanks white ; bill 
bluish grey, tip black. In an immature state, these 
birds have the base of the bill surrounded with 
white ;< the head dark umber-brown, with a slight 
tuft or crest ; the dark parts of the breast deep 
wood-brown ; belly and vent white ; the dark up- 
per parts umber-brown. 
The Ferruginous Duck, or White-eyed Po- 
chard, Fuligula ferruginea. — Anas ferruginea 
el nyroca , Gmel A. leucopthalmits. Canard a irk 
blanc, Temm. — Fuligula nyroca , Steph., Selby, &c. — 
Ferruginous Duck, Nyroca Pochard of British au- 
thors. — This pochard is, like the two preceding birds, 
