THe scaAuUP. 
Fuligula marila, Linneé. 
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Vernacular Names.—[None. ] 
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974 EW of the wild fowl known to occur within our limits 
fare apparently of rarer occurrence than the Scaup 
Pochard. Nor, considering that this is pre-emi- 
nently a littoral species, that its normal range is 
tie eitise northern) temperate . zone, “its ‘only. 
recorded occurrence within the tropics being that 
“a of a pair which Heuglin says he saw in Abyssinia), 
nl that almost our entire coast line is outside that zone, can 
this be a matter for much surprise. 
My only Indian-killed specimens are a quite young female, 
shot near Srinugger on the Ist of August, and an immature 
male, shot at the Wooller Lake (also in Kashmir) on the 5th 
of November. 
Mr. A. Grahame Young writes to me that he has shot this 
species in Kullu, in winter. Hodgson sent home specimens 
from Nepal, and one of his drawings of a duck obtained in the 
valley on the 21st of October, though labelled a female of 
F. nyroca, is clearly, by the broad bill, yellow iris, and broad white 
lore patch (not as yet mecting on the forehead), an immature 
Scaup. Colonel McMaster is of opinion that one year, in 
January, he saw several birds of this species, on marshes and 
salt lakes between Chicacole and Berhampore in the Northern 
Circars (say 19° N. Lat.,) and the male is a bird that so experi- 
enced a sportsman could hardly mistake for any other species 
that could occur there. 
I have no further information as to the occurrence of this 
species within our limits, but it may prove to be in reality less 
rare than we now suppose; and immature birds, which are most 
likely to wander farthest south, may often have been put aside 
as the young or females of the White- -eye. 
Outside our limits, the Scaup has been sent from Japan, 
and is common on the Chinese coasts in winter as far 
SOumiede any cate, as Formosa, but is much rarer in the 
interior of the Empire. Prjevalski appears never to have 
met with it in Mongolia or the valley of the Hoang-ho, 
