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SCAUP. 



SCAUP DUCK. SCAUP POCHARD. 

 PLATE CXCVH. FIG. II. 



Anas marila, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Fuligula marila, SELBT. JENYNS. 



Nyroca marila, FLEMING. 



THE Scaup 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 colour. 



The bird begins to lay in May. 



