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ANATIN^. FULIGULA. 
Ring-necked Duck, Anas (Fuligula) rufitorques, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. 
V. ii. p. 453. 
Ring-necked Duck, Fuligaila rufitorques, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 439. 
Ring-necked Duck, Fuligula rufitorques, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 259. 
* ^ Bill very broad^ much flattened, the unguis abruptly curved 
backwards. 
400. 5. Fuligula rubida, Wils. Ruddy Duck. 
Plate CCCXLIII. Male, Female, and Young. 
Tail short, much graduated, of eighteen stiff*, narrow feathers ; plu- 
mage of lower parts stiff* and glossy. Male with the bill light greyish- 
blue ; upper part of head and nape deep bluish-black ; a large white 
pateh on each side of the head, from the bill to behind the ear ; neck 
all round, all the upper parts, and sides glossy chestnut-red ; lower 
parts greyish- white, tinged with brown, and marked with transverse 
interrupted bands of dusky; wing- coverts, quills, and tail-feathers 
blackish-brown. Female with the bill darker, the crown, and all the 
upper parts dark reddish-brown, minutely dotted and undulated with 
dusky; lower parts duller, but similarly marked; throat, and a band 
from the base of the upper mandible to beneath the eye, brownish- 
white. Young, in second plumage, reddish-brown above, barred with 
dusky ; wings and tail dark greyish-brown ; cheeks, fore part and sides 
of neck, and all the lower parts dull yellowish- white, undulated with 
dusky, as in the rump above ; lower tail-coverts white. 
Male, 14|, 214. 
Ruddy Duck, Anas rubida, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. viii. p. 137. 
Fuligula rubida, Bonap. Syn. p. 390. 
Fuligula rubida. Ruddy Duck, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 455. 
Ruddy Duck, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 426. 
Ruddy Duck, Fuligula rubida, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 326. 
* semicylindrical, at the end enlarged by soft membranous 
expansions, the unguis broadly obovate and incurved. 
401. 6. Fuligula Labradora, Lath. Pied Duck. 
Plate CCCXXXII. Male and Female. 
Bill nearly as long as the head; tail much rounded, of fourteen 
tapering feathers. Male with the bill pale greyish-blue at the base 
above, dull orange on the sides, black toward the end ; head and up- 
per half of neck white, except an elongated patch of black on the 
crown and nape ; below the middle of the neck a black ring, from the 
hind part of which proceeds a longitudinal band of the same colour, 
gradually becoming wider on the back and rump ; below the black 
ring anteriorly, a broad band of white, including the scapulars ; all the 
under parts black, excepting the axillaries and lower wing-coverts, 
which are white, as are the upper wing-coverts and secondary quills. 
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