SCAUP 



SCAUP DUCK SCAUP POCHARD. 



PLATE CXCVI I. FIGURE II. 



Anas mania, .... PENNANT. MONTAGU. 

 Fuligula mania, . . . SELBY. JENYNS. 



THE Scaup, a common winter visitor, builds among the 

 brushwood or other vegetation that is found in swampy 

 grounds, or by lakes, or in stony places near these. Very 

 little nest is formed, the materials, such as they are, being 

 dry grasses, stalks, and leaves, but the eggs are well 

 covered with down. They are, it is said, from five or six 

 to eight or ten in number, of a dull yellowish-brown or clay 

 buff colour. 



The bird, which breeds throughout the Arctic regions, 

 begins to lay in May. Some few pairs stay and breed in 

 Scotland. 



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