446 Mr. A. G. More on the Distribution of Birds 



miles from Scarborough as breeding-localities; and quite recently 

 the Rev. H. Roundell has found the Pochard breeding in the 

 Craven district of Yorkshire. 



Obs. — A female Scaup [Fuligula marila) was once shot by Sir 

 W. Jardine in Sutherland during summer, and hence it has been 

 supposed that this species bred in the north of Scotland. But 

 that gentlemen tells me that he considers it was " most probably 

 a wounded bird, or remaining by some accident ^^*. Mr. Wolley 

 could not find this species during his excursions in Sutherland. 



Fuligula cristata {Staph.) . Tufted Duck. 



Provinces II. V. VIII. X. XI. 



Subprovinces 6, 15, 20, 23, 24. 



Lat. 50°-56°. " English " type. Not in Ireland. 



Mr. Borrer tells me that a brood of Tufted Ducks was found 

 near Horsham in May 1853, and another at West Grinstead in 

 1854. 



Mr. W. H. Slaney writes that the bird is common on the large 

 meres of Stafford and Shropshire, and that he has known of one 

 nest in the latter county. 



Sir William Milner and Mr. A. Newton have recorded the 

 occurrence of several nests in Nottinghamshire (Zoologist, p. 4440; 

 Trans. Tyneside Nat. Club, vol. v. p. 40). 



In the ^Zoologist' (p. 2879), mention is made of a brood ob- 

 served on Malham Water, in the West Riding of Yorkshire ; and 

 Mr. Hancock describes the bird as breeding occasionally in 

 Northumberland (Trans. Tyneside Nat. Club, ut supra). 



Obs. — In 1848 two eggs were given to the late Mr. John 

 Wolley in Shetland as those of the "Calloo Duck" (the local 

 name for Harelda glacialis), with a positive assurance that they 

 had been taken on a low holm in that group of islands. So far 

 as can be determined from their appearance, there is nothing to 



* In Mr. Selby's paper on the Birds of Sutherland (Edinb. New. Phil. 

 Journ. vol. xx. p. 29.3), it is stated that this bird " was attended by a young 

 one, which unfortunately escaped among the reeds ;" but in the note with 

 which I have been favoured by Sir William Jardine, he says nothing about 

 the latter, merely mentioning that the old female he shot is now in his 

 collection. 



