Birds of Celebes : Anatidae. 
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narrower speculuni; while the prirnaries of Quct'Qwdulci are narrower and. more 
pointed. Altogether the wing of Qtierquedula is that of a bird of greater flying- 
powers. The present species is very distinct; its nearest affinities are perhaps 
with Q. discors (L.) of N. America and, in winter, the West Indies and some 
parts of S. America; the latter has the lesser and middle wing-coverts light blue 
and, in the male, a white crescentic, patch down the face, but no such mark 
along the sides of the head and nape as in Q. circia. 
GENUS NYROCA Flem- 
This genus may be distinguished from the preceding Celebesian Ducks by 
its hallux which is lobated as markedly as that of a Grebe. The bill is broad 
and flat, longer than the tarsus ; the outer toe is equal in length to the middle 
one. Of cosmopolitan distribution. 
374. NYROCA FULIGULA (L.). 
Tufted Duck. 
a. Anas fuligula (1) Linn., S. N. 1766, I, 207; (2) Steere, List Coll B. & M. Philipp. Is. 
1890, 27. 
h. Anas cristata (1) Leach (nec Gm.), Syst. Oat. M. & B. Br. Mus. 1816, 39. 
Nyroca fuligula (1) Flem., Phil, of Zool. 11, 260 (1822). 
c. Fuligula cristata (1) Steph., Gen. Zool. XH, 2, 190 (1824); (2) Pinsch, Journ. Mus. 
Godef. 1875, VIII, 40; (III) Dresser, B. Europe VI, 573, pi. 437 (1879); (4) 
Hume, Str. F. 1879, IX, 115; (5) Everett, Ibis 1890, 263; (6) Seek, B. Japan. 
1890, 255; (7) Styan, Ibis 1891, 328, 497; (8) De La Touche, Ibis 1892, 492. 
d. Mormon des Isles Mariannes (1) Less., Tr. d’Orn. 1831, 632 (fide Salvadori). 
e. Fuligula fuligula (1) Licht., Nomencl. Av. 1854, 102; (2) Salvad., Cat. B. 1895, 
XXVn, 363. 
f. Fulix cristata (1) Swinh., P. Z. S. 1871, 419; (2) David & Oust., Ois. Chine 1877, 508; 
(3) Tacz., Faun. Orn. Sib. Orient. 1893, H, 1167. 
g. Aythya fuligula (1) Stejn., Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, Nr. 29, p. 160. 
h. Nyroca cristata (1) Newt., Diet. B. 1894, 736. 
For further synonymy and references cf. Salvadori e 2. 
Figures and descriptions. The standard works on Birds of the countries of Europe; Dresser 
c III\ Taezanowski f 3\ Salvadori e 2; etc. 
Adult male. Upper surface, breast and under tail-coverts black; back and scapulars 
duskier, finely peppered with whitish specks; a long decurved crest; lower breast, 
sides and abdomen white; thighs dusky; secondaries white, tipped with black; 
unexposed part of inner primaries whitish (cf, Saxony — Nr. 10454). 
“Bill lead-blue, tipped with black; iris yellow; legs dull olive-plumbeous, with 
blackish webs” (Dresser III). 
Female. The black parts in tlie male replaced by brown, darkest on the lower back, more 
ferruginous on the face and breast, palest on anterior parts of cheeks; scarcely 
any crest; abdomen and sides with brown intermixed with the white ($, Pillnitz, 
Saxony — Nr. 12429). 
Iteyer & W i t'l e sw o r th, Birds of Celelies (Dec. 13tli, 1897). 
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