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nard morillon, Temm. — Tufted Duck, or Tufted 
Pochard of British authors , — Is an example of ano- 
ther dark-coloured pochard, oasily distinguished by 
the rich glossy purple of the head and neck, and its 
loose and gracefully pendent crest. It is altogether 
a less bird than the last, and rather more gracefully 
made, while it at the same time keeps up the de- 
pressed and broad form, and is a most expert diver. 
The tufted duck is also only a winter visitant to 
this country, and seems pretty equally distributed 
during winter, but not nearly in equal numbers 
with the scaup. On the Solway we have observed, 
it in a much less proportion, and only in small 
parties together. Its describers consider it more 
lacustrine than the scaup, and we have frequently 
shot specimens on the Annan, during winter, fifteen 
or twenty miles from the sea ; the weather was 
always, however, severe when this bird appeared, 
seldom more than a pair were seen together, and 
they were far from being shy, trusting rather to 
falling down the river when danger appeared, and 
not attempting to fly unless surprised or approached 
very near. We saw several pairs upon Lochleven 
in the month of April last (1843), where we un- 
derstood that they continued during a great part of 
winter. Here they were extremely shy. 
In Southern and Central Europe it seems only 
to be a winter visitant also, and in the North 
is only recorded as breeding very sparingly, so that 
its real breeding haunts are scarcely yet known. 
By Colonel Sykes it was observed in the Deccan, 
