Ring-necked Duck, Anas (Fuligula) rufitorques, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 453.
Ring-necked Duck, Fuligula 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; plumage 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 patch 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, 143/4, 211/2.
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.
*** Bill semicylindrical, at the end enlarged by soft membranous expansions, the unguis broadly obovate and incurved.
401. 6. Fuligula Labradora, Lath. Pied Duck.