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The weight of a male Scaup-Duck is 2 lbs. 7 oz. ; 

 of the female, 2 lbs. 



TUFTED DUCK. Fuligula cristata (Leach). PI. 30, 

 figs. 9, 10. Length, 16-5 in. ; bill, 1-75 in. ; wing, 8 

 in. ; tarsus, 1 in. 



A winter visitant ; but several instances are on re- 

 cord of its having remained to breed in Northumber- 

 land, Yorkshire, Stafford, Shropshire, and Sussex. 



In May 1876 a nest of eggs of the Tufted Duck 

 was taken at Stanford, West Norfolk, on the pro- 

 perty of Lord Walsingham. Prof. Newton, who 

 was present at the finding of the nest on May 

 30, showed me a few days later one of the eggs. 

 {Trans. Norf. Nat. Soc, 1876, p. 210.) I have 

 seen nests at Rainworth and Newstead, in Not- 

 tinghamshire, where this Duck breeds regularly, 

 and, being protected during the nesting season, is 

 annually increasing. 



During the summer of 1893 a brood of Tufted 

 Ducks was reared in North Warwickshire, near 

 Coventry {ZooL, 1893, p. 429), and another brood on 

 a piece of private water at the mouth of the Titch- 

 field River, Hants. This Duck has been found nest- 

 ing also at Lord Ashburton's, The Grange, near 

 Alresford. Some years ago, when residing much in 

 West Sussex, I constantly saw small parties of 

 Tufted Ducks on the ponds at West Harting during 

 the winter months, and have shot five or six in a 

 day by having them driven over me by the keeper, 

 while I remained concealed amongst the reeds. 



