﻿SCAUP POCHARD, 151 



NAT A TORES. ANATIDSE. 



PLATE CCLXIL 



SCAUP POCHARD. 



V 



FULIGULA MARILA. 



The Scaup Pochard is a regular winter visitant in Great 

 Britain, arriving early or late according to the earlier or 

 later setting in of the northern winter in its native countries, 

 which are the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America. 

 Its numbers are very great about the Arctic regions : in 

 Europe it ranges from thence according to the season as 

 far as the shores of the Mediterranean, and in the same 

 proportion in Asia and America. To enumerate the coun- 

 tries from whence it comes to us in the months of October and 

 November, we have to mention Greenland, Lapland, Ice- 

 land, Norway, Sweden, &c. Although many Scaup Pochards 

 reach our shores, the numbers that pass the winter in Den- 

 mark and Holland exceed them very greatly, but the north- 

 ern coast of France has not so many as the British 

 Isles. 



The present species differs not only in its residing by 

 far more northward than the three foregoing, but also in its 

 preference of the sea-coast and salt-water, which preference is 



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