74 THE BIRDS OF RAINHAM. 



COMMON SCOTER. 

 (Edemia nigra (Linn.). 



The Common Scoter has not, to my knowledge, 

 been shot on the Medway. 



POCHARD. 

 Fuligula ferina (Linn.). 



We have no harbour for the Pochard, come it does 

 upon occasion and goes, like Wigeon, even faster than 

 it comes. The incessant traffic on our river, which 

 increases every year, bids fair to drive the Pochard 

 right away. 



SCAUP DUCK. 

 Fuligula marila (Linn.). 



The Scaup Duck is certainly much less uncommon 

 than the Pochard ; at uncertain intervals, mostly in 

 severe weather, our gunners obtain a few, as a rule 

 chiefly single birds, numbers being quite the excep- 

 tion. 



TUFTED DUCK. 

 Fuligula cristata (Leach). 



The Tufted Duck is not uncommon. They come 

 into the creeks and marshes for the most part singly, 

 and always in winter time ; are thinly distributed. 



