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Allen’s naturalist’s library. 
I. THE red-crested POCHARD. NETTA RUFINA. 
Anas rnfina, Pallas, Reise, ii. App. p. 7^3 (i 773 )' 
Aythya rufina, Macg. Br. B. v. p. 109 (1852). 
Fiiligula rufina. Dresser, B. Eur. vi. p. 559, pi. 435 (1873); 
B. O. U. List Br. B. p. 128 (1883); Saunders, ed. Yarr. 
Br. B. iv. p. 403 (1884); Seebohm, Br. B. iii. p. 567 
(1885) ; Saunders, Man. p. 431 (1889) ; Lilford, Col. Fig. 
Br. B. part X. (1889). 
Nethi rufina, Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 328 (1895). 
Adult Male.— Back light drab-brown, including the mantle, 
upper back, and scapulars ; lower back, rump, and upper tail- 
coverts black; a white patch on each side of the mantle; 
wing-coverts dull ashy, those round the end of the wing white ; 
bastard-wing and primary-coverts also ashy ; primaries ashy- 
brown externally, as well as at the tips of the inner webs, with a 
sub-terminal black bar on the latter, the inner webs otherwise 
white, forming a large “ mirror,” extending on to the outer 
webs of the inner primaries, which are white excepting for their 
blackish tips ; secondaries also white, with a sub-terminal bar of 
ashy ; the inner ones pearly-grey, the innermost brown, like the 
gQupulars ; tail ashy-grey ; crown of head much crested, cinna- 
mon ; lores, sides of face, and throat vinous-chestnut ; a band 
down the hind neck, sides of neck and upper mantle, as well as 
the under surface of the body black, rather browner on the 
abdomen ; sides of body white, the feathers adjoining the 
black colour vermiculated with dusky ; the flank-feathers light 
brown at the ends ; axillarics and under wing-coverts white ; 
“ bill brilliant crimson, sometimes a little inclining to vermi- 
lion ; nail brown or white, tinged with hrownish-horn or pink 
horny, brown or yellow at tip ; feet dingy salmon-colour or 
reddish-orange, dusky on the joints and blackish on the webs ; 
iris varying from brown to red, in very old birds ” (A. 0 - 
Hume). Total length, 21 inches ; culmen, 2-15 ; wing, 10-3 ; 
tail, 27; tarsus, i'6. 
Adult Female. — Different from the male. Light brown above, 
paler on the scapulars, which have whity-brown ends ; lower 
back and rump dusky-brown, the upper tail-coverts paler 
brown ; wing-coverts light brown ; quills as in the male, but 
the white on the inner web of the primaries not quite so ex- 
