172 BIRDS OF LANCASHIRE. 



elsewhere. It has been shot in every month of the year 

 except May and June, and bu'ds killed in July are not 

 likely to have been bred far away, though until last 

 spring no information was forthcoming as to its nesting 

 within the county limits. In June 1884, however, Mr. 

 Pi. J. Howard tells me that a brood of nine young was 

 hatched at Woodfold Park, and on the 25th of July, five 

 of them, on their way from one lake to the other, were 

 caught in a net, pinioned, and turned down again. The 

 unpinioned birds left with the female, the male having 

 disappeared some time previously, as soon as they could 

 fly, she occasionally returning as if to induce her 

 remaining young to accompany her : these, up to the 

 27th of September, were still very wild. 



[" On 20th July 1891, Tufted Duck hatched seven, 

 and on 5th July 1892, eight young, in Blackburn Cor- 

 poration Park."— K. J. H.] 



SCAUP. 



FuLiGULA :iiAEiLA (Linnffius). 



Local Name — Bluc-Jnll. 



A regular winter visitor, occasionally seen so early as 

 September (ZooL, 1872, H. Durnford), though usually 

 not till a month or two later. It is sometimes plentiful 

 in Morecambe Bay, and Mr. T. Jackson tells me that 

 large quantities are there taken in nets by the 

 hihabitants of Arnside and Silverdale. It occurs in 

 small flocks in all the river estuaries, but seldom leaves 

 the sea far, frequenting mostly at such times the 

 meadows flooded by the overflowing streams. [Since 

 this was written several Scaup have been shot on the 

 reservoir at Haslingden Moor, twenty miles inland.] 



