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allen's naturalist’s licrary. 
have had opportunities of watching them unperceived, busy 
feeding at all hours, and never asleep as night-feeding Ducks 
so constantly are between 1 1 a.ni. and 3 p.m. ; and, secondly, 
because I have so rarely killed them when flight-shooting! 
When settled on some comfortable, rush-embosomed, weed- 
interwoven broad, I am pretty certain that they do not change 
their quarters at nightfall, as when encamped near any of thdr 
chosen day haunts I have heard their harsh, familiar call at in- 
tervals throughout the midnight hours ; but, of course, in the 
less common case, when they affect bare-shored lakes or rivers 
by day (and some few do do this), they must needs go elsewhere 
to feed during the night, and in such situations I have once or 
twice seen them at mid-day snoozing at the water’s edge. 
“Their ‘quack,’ or note, is peculiar, though something like 
that of the Pochard, a harsh kirr, kirr, kirr, with which one 
soon becomes acquainted, as they invariably utter it staccato 
as they bustle up from the rushes, often within a few yards of 
the boat.” 
Neat. — Composed of dry flags and rushes, and lined with thick 
brownish down and a few white feathers {Li/ford). 
Eggs.— From nine to fourteen in number, but the usual 
number is ten. Colour creamy-brown. Axis, 2-o-2'2 inches • 
diam., rqs-i'ss. ’ 
THE SCAUP DUCKS. GENUS FULIGULA. 
Fiihgula, Steph. Gen. Zool. xii. pt. 2, p. 187 (1824). 
Type, F. fnligula (L.). 
The genus FuHguIa is very similar to Nyroca, and only differs 
in the shape of the bill, which, as Count Salvadori points out 
IS rather broader and shorter, and widens out near the end so 
that it is wider at the tip than at the base ; it is also more 
rounded at the end. The males in the genus FulFula have 
the head black, not chestnut. 
I. THE TUFTED SCAUP DUCK. FULIGULA FULIGULA. 
Anasfitligula, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 207 (1766). 
