POCHARD. 
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NA TA TORES. 
AN ATI DAE. 
POCHARD. 
Fuligula ferina. 
PATE CXVII. FIG. II. 
I HAVE much pleasure in being able, through the kind¬ 
ness of the Messrs. Tuke, to add this species to those of 
the duck-tribe which remain in this country during the 
breeding-season. 
I cannot do better than quote the information on this 
interesting subject sent me by Mr. James H. Tuke:— 
“ Whilst at Scarborough about the middle of June last 
year, Mr. Bean informed me that several pairs of red¬ 
headed ducks, as the gamekeeper called them, had been 
seen upon a piece of water a few miles from Scarborough, 
and that he was going the next day to see if he could find 
their nests. I had the pleasure of accompanying him, and 
sure enough several pairs of Pochards flew up from their 
reedy habitation, as we passed our boat up amongst the 
tufts of grass and long reeds which at one end of the lake 
form a bog of many acres in extent, almost inaccessible, 
for between these tufts of treacherous grass the water is 
some feet deep: it was with the greatest difficulty we 
managed to jump from one of these tufts to another. 
Whilst beating about amongst this herbage, a female 
Pochard flew up almost close to us, and in a short 
time the gamekeeper, who was with us, found a nest 
