176 ANATID.S. 



Nyroca ferina. POCHARD. 



Anas ferina Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 126 : Sweden. 



Fuligula ferina (Linn.); B. 0. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 130; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 443. 

 Nyroca ferina Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. H. xxvii. 1895, p. 335. 



Ferina = of or belonging to wild animals, ferse ; perhaps in reference to ita 

 " game " flavour. Cf. German Tafel-Ente, " Table Duck." 



Distribution in the British Islands. Chiefly a Winter Visitor 

 between October and April, but many pairs are Resident and 

 remain to breed and, owing to the protection afforded them, 

 seem to be increasing. In Scotland it is generally distri- 

 buted in summer from the Orkneys southwards, but is only a 

 winter visitor to the Shetlands and rarely nests in the Outer 

 Hebrides or in Ireland. In England it has nested in many 

 counties, but chiefly along the east and south coasts. 



General Distribution. The Pochard inhabits the greater 

 part of Europe and Asia, wandering to Iceland and the Faeroe 

 Islands, but not extending far north. It breeds from the 

 sub-arctic portions of Scandinavia and Russia southwards in 

 suitable places to the Caspian sea, and throughout temperate 

 Asia as far north as Lake Baikal. It probably also nests in 

 north Africa. It winters in the Mediterranean countries 

 and north Africa from Morocco to Egypt, wandering to the 

 Azores and Canary Islands ; also eastwards from the Red sea 

 to India, China, and Japan. In America it is represented 

 by the nearly allied N. americana. 



Nyroca marila. SCAUP. 



Anas marila Linnceus, Fauna Svecica, 2nd ed. 1761, p. 39 : 

 Lapland. 



Fuligula marila (Linn.} ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 129 ; 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. 1895, p. 355; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 449. 



Marila, from ^ap/\ij=the embers of charcoal; from its pitch-black fore- 

 parts. 



