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THE TUFTED DUCK. 



FuLiGULA CRiSTATA (Leach). 



The Tufted Duck is well known as occurring between autumn and 

 spring on our low-l3-ing coasts, estuaries and lakes, where it is often 

 found in company with Pochard, Scaup, Golden-eye, and other 

 diving-ducks ; but considerable numbers remain to breed with us, 

 and in few areas more abundantly than in Nottinghamshire, 

 especially on the ponds at Newstead, Clumber, Welbeck, Rufford 

 and Rainworth : the last — the property of Mr. J. Whitaker — having 

 been visited by many ornithologists. Nests have also been found 

 in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Northumberland, Norfolk, Sussex, Hants, 

 Dorset, and some other counties which afford suitable resorts. In 

 Scotland the Tufted Duck is now known to breed on more than 

 forty lochs, and plentifully on some of them ; while its nests have 

 been found as far west as Tiree and as far north as Hoy, and the 

 bird has been seen in the Shetlands in summer. In Ireland, increas- 

 ing numbers nest on the lakes of Ulster, the central counties and the 

 Shannon valley, while in winter the species is generally distributed. 



This Duck is said to have bred in the Fjeroes, and it is found in 

 small numbers on the rivers and lakes of Norway in the warmer 

 months, becoming more abundant in Sweden, Finland and Russia, 

 though comparatively rare beyond the Arctic circle. Southward, it 

 nests in suitable localities down to about lat. 50° N., while over the 

 rest of Europe it is found (even in the High Alps) on migration, and 



