172 BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 



ponds and drains ; but we always consider it a rare 

 Duck, and it is seldom killed by any of our numerous 

 gunners. The specimens I have obtained during the 

 last ten years are either females or young birds of 

 the year,, the mature male being quite exceptional. 



This species is occasionally met with in the autumn 

 and winter on Croxby Lake and other inland waters 

 in North Lincolnshire. 



The Pochard nests annually on Hornsea Mere, in 

 Holderness, also formerly on the Mere near Scar- 

 borough. 



222. FULIGULA FERRUGINEA (Gmelm) . Ferruginous 

 Duck. 



Mr. Yarrell, in his ' British Birds/ vol. iii. p. 338, 

 says, " I have seen examples of all ages that were 

 procured in the London Market ; these are generally 

 received from the eastern counties, between the 

 Thames and the Humber." 



I have no recent notice of the capture of this rare 

 species either in Lincolnshire or Holderness. 



223. FULIGULA MARILA (Linnaeus). The Scaup 

 Duck. 



Provincial. Black Scaup, Black Poker Duck. 



One of the commonest of our Humber Ducks, 

 arriving late in the autumn, about the first week in 

 November, in considerable numbers on the river and 

 along the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire seaboard. 



