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gray, as in the male, the breast brownish-white, the loral spaces 
and chin pale-brown, the abdomen umber brown. 
“ Length 16 inches. • 
“ The Tufted Duck of Europe, Fuligula crutata, is very 
nearly allied to this species.”— Audubon's Birds of America. 
By Wilson, in his American Ornithology, this bird has been 
assumed as identical with the Tufted Duck of Europe, and is 
said to be common to both continents, which I conceive to be 
erroneous. 
It is common on all the western waters, but is rare, though 
not as much so but that it is perfectly well known, along the 
Atlantic coasts, from Massachusetts to Louisiana. 
THE RUDDY DUCK. 
Fuligula Rubida; Bonap. Anas Rubidus; Wilson .— Vulgo, 
Salt Water Teal. 
“ Male 143, 21{. 
“ Adult male in summer: 
“ Bill as long as the head, a little higher than broad at the 
base, depressed and widened toward the end, which is rounded. 
Dorsal outline straight, and decimate to the nostrils, then direct 
and slightly concave, the sides sloping and concave at the base, 
broadly convex toward the end, the edges soft without, about 
forty short erect lamellae internally on each side, the unguis 
linear-oblong, suddenly decurved and directed backward, its 
lower part transversely expanded and serrulate, nostrils in an 
oblong depression covered with skin, medial rather small, 
linear-oblong, pervious; lower mandible flattened, a little re¬ 
curved, its angle very long and narrow, the laminae about a hun¬ 
dred and forty, extremely small, the unguis oblong. 
“ Head rather large, oblong. Eyes of moderate size. Neck 
short and thick. Body full, much depressed. Legs short, and 
placed rather far behind ; tibia bare for a short space ; tarsus 
