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SCAUP. 



SCAUP DUCK. SCAUP POCHARD. 



Anns marifa, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



fvliguia marifa, SRLBY. JKNYNS. 



Nyroca marila, FLEMING. 



Anas A Duck. Marila ? 



THE native countries of this species are those portions of 

 the three continents of the old world, which, under the name 

 of the Arctic regions, belong to the frozen north. From 

 these it comes southward in the autumn, to meet a milder 

 winter. To the former category belong Baffin's Bay, Hudson's 

 Bay, the Bay of Fundy, Greenland, Iceland, Siberia, Lapland, 

 Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, and to the latter the 

 United States, and Mexico, Holland, France, Germany, Italy, 

 and Switzerland: in America it is likewise found on the 

 large rivers the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi. 



Their preference is for the sea-coast, especially where of a 

 low and muddy character, and from this it advances into 

 lochs near it, estuaries, and the tidal parts of rivers. This 

 remark, however, must only be taken as applying to the 

 winter half of the year. They breed in different parts of 

 Scandinavia, as well as farther north. 



They are with us regular visitants to such parts of the 

 coast as are suitable to their habits. 



In Yorkshire the Scaup Duck has been shot near Don caster, 

 York, Huddersfield, Barnsley, Sheffield, and Sutton-upon-Der- 

 went, and is, on the whole, a not uncommon species in the 

 winter. 



It is more or less frequent in the county of Northampton, 

 says the Hon. T. L. Powys, in a letter to me. 



