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THE TUFTED DUCK. 



FULIGULA CRISTATA (Lcach). 



The Tufted Duck is best known as occurring between autumn and 

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

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

 diving-ducks. A tolerable and increasing number remain to breed 

 with us, and nowhere more abundantly than in Nottinghamshire, 

 especially on the ponds at Newstead, Clumber, A\'elbeck, Rufiford 

 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, Dorset, 

 and some other counties which afford suitable resorts. In Scotland 

 it is evidently on the increase, and breeds on Yetholm Loch in 

 Roxburghshire, Butterston and Dupplin Lochs in Perthshire, and oa 

 Loch Leven, as well as in Aberdeenshire. In Ireland it annually 

 frequents Loughs Neagh and Beg, and some waters in co. Monaghan 

 in summer, being generally distributed in winter. 



This species is said to have bred in the Focroes, and 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 beyond the Arctic circle it is comparatively rare. Southward, 

 it nests in suitable localities down to about lat. 50' ; while over the 

 rest of Europe it is found on migration and in winter ; at which season 

 it ranges through Africa as far as Abyssinia. In summer it frequents 



