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TUFTED DUCK. 



TUFTED POCIIARD. BLACK WIGEON. 



Anas fuliffula, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Fti/it/ii-/n cristata, SELBY. JENYNS. 



Nyroca ftillyul.a, FLEMING. 



Anas A Duck. Fullgula ? 



THE Tufted Duck is yet another northern species, frequenting, 

 in Europe, Lapland, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, and coming 

 southwards before winter to the warmer climes of Italy, 

 France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, and Hungary. In 

 Asia, it spreads over parallel districts, and is found in the 

 neighbourhood of the Caucasian range, in Persia, and, east- 

 ward, in India, in the Dukkun and Himalaya, as far as 

 Japan. It is stated also to exist in the corresponding 

 latitudes T of North America. 



Its haunts are the still waters of inland lakes, ponds, tarns, 

 and the ^estuaries, inlets, and bays of the sea; the former in 

 the summer, the latter in the winter season of the year. 



A few pairs of these birds breed in Holland; also in the 

 neighbourhood of Lulea, on the Gulf of Bothnia, and other 

 places in the south; but the vast majority seek the retire- 

 ment of the north. 



In Yorkshire, this species has been procured near Doncaster, 

 Leeds, Barnsley, Huddersfield, York, Halifax, and divers other 

 places. The Tufted Duck has been not unfrequently obtained 

 in Cambridgeshire. It also has been killed several times in 

 hard winters near Lilford, Northamptonshire, the Hon. T. L. 

 Powys informs me; and is also occasionally seen on Croxby 

 Lake, Lincolnshire, the Rev. R. P. Alingtou has written me 

 word. In the county of Durham one was shot near Stockton- 



