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1920). It has also been recorded from the Kuriles (Hatta and Murata, 1905-06) and 

 examples have been taken on Saghalin on May 10, at Chaivo (Hesse, 1915) and on May 

 12, at Sakachama (Thayer and Bangs, 1916). On May 9, 1912, a single example was 

 taken on St. Paul Island in the Pribilov group (Evermann, 1913), and in the Loo-choo 

 Islands specimens have been taken as late as June 13 on Ishigaki (Owston, 1899). 



Winter Range 



In western Europe the Tufted Duck winters in small numbers as far north as the Shet- 

 lands (A. H. Evans and Buckley, 1899). During the cold season it is generally dis- 

 tributed in the British Isles (Seebohm, 1885; R. Gray, 1871; Witherby et al., 1919-22; 

 H. Saunders, 1899; Ussher and Warren, 1900; etc. etc.). It is also found about the 

 southern coasts of Norway (Schaanning, 1913) and Sweden (Wallengren, 1854), as well 

 as on the coast of Kurland, or Latvia (Loudon, 1909). On the coasts and in many 

 places in the interior of Germany it is a fairly common winter bird (Naumann, 1896- 

 1905; R. Blasius, 1896; Le Roi, 1906-07; etc.) and the same is true of Denmark (Kjar- 

 bblling, 1850; "G. L.," 1918), Holland (Schlegel, 1859), Belgium (Dubois, 1886) and 



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 Shetlands 

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 navia 

 Baltic 

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 Denmark 

 Holland 

 Belgium 

 France 

 Portugal 

 Spain 

 Corsica 

 Sardinia 

 Italy 



northwestern France (Ternier and Masse, 1907; d'Aubusson, 1911). In Portugal it is 

 one of the commonest ducks (Tait, 1896; de Seabra, 1910) and in Spain it is common in 

 various localities, especially on the eastern coast (Irby, 1883; A. Chapman, 1888; A. 

 Chapman and Buck, 1910; Arevalo y Baca, 1887). Munn (1921, 1924) has recorded 

 it from Majorca and Minorca. It is abundant on Corsica (Wharton, 1876; J. White- 

 head, 1885) and is described as the commonest duck in Sardinia (Salvadori, 1865; 

 Brooke, 1873). On the southern coast of France it is fairly common in winter (von 

 Miiller, 1856; J. H. Gurney, 1901; Griscom, 1921) and it is found throughout Italy in 

 suitable localities (Giglioli, 1886; Arrigoni degli Oddi, 1904) though it appears to be 

 quite rare in Malta (C. A. Wright, 1864; A. L. Adams, 1870; Despott, 1917). 



In Switzerland it is a comparatively common winter bird (Fatio, 1904). Others winter in Bohemia 

 (Fritsch, 1872), Austria (Mojsisovics von Mojsvar, 1897), Hungary (Aquila, vol. 3, p. 83, 1896; vol. 4, 

 p. 76, 1897), Dalmatia (Kolombatovic, 1903), Montenegro (Reiser and von Fiihrer, Switzer- 

 1896), Albania (Powys, 1860), Greece (Lindermayer, 1860; Reiser, 1905), including 

 Macedonia (Sladen, 1918; Chasen, 1921), and in Bulgaria, where it has been spoken of 

 as the commonest duck (Radakoff, 1879; Alleon, 1886). Furthermore the winter range 

 includes the whole southern littoral of Russia. Valkh (1911) speaks of the species as 

 common on the lower Dnieper in winter and Kennedy (1921) found it abundant on the 

 south coast of Crimea, and more common than any other species at Novorossisk on the Kuban coast. 



In western Africa the Tufted Duck has once been taken as far south as the Sulyma 

 River, Sierra Leone (Biittikofer, 1892). Hartert (1920a) says it has occurred in Ma- 

 deira, but gives no authority. In Morocco it is very common in some years (Drake, 

 1867; Favier, fide Irby, 1875; Hartert and Jourdain, 1923) and in parts of Algeria, as 

 for example, Lake Fetzara, and in the northwest it is also common (Rothschild and 

 Hartert, 1912; Millais, 1913); while in the northern Sahara, Tristram (1860) found 

 immense numbers. Talamon (1904) and J. I. S. Whitaker (1905) describe it as not 

 uncommon in Tunis, and Salvin (1859) found it abundant on Lake Biserta in March. 

 Millet-Horsin (1912), however, considers it very rare at Tunis and Biserta. 



In Lower Egypt it is an abundant species in winter (Shelley, 1872; Nicoll, 1919), extending south 

 through Nubia (von Heuglin, 1873) to Khartum (W. L. Sclater and Macworth-Praed, _ . 

 1920) and in small numbers to the White Nile. More to the eastward it has been taken Abyssinia 

 at Adowa (von Heuglin, 1873) and appears to be plentiful on Lake Harrar and other 

 localities in southern Abyssinia (Salvadori, 1884; Ogilvie-Grant, 1900; Ogilvie-Grant and Reid, 1901). 



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Madeira 



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