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NAT A TORES. 
AN AT I DEE. 
SCAUP DUCK. 
Fuligula marila. 
PLATE CXVII. PIG. III. 
This species, like the preceding, has been once detected 
breeding in- this country. Mr. Selby, in his notice of the 
birds of Sutherlandshire, says that a “ single female was 
shot by Sir William Jardine in a small loch between Loch 
Hope and Eriboll. She was attended by a young one, 
which, unfortunately, escaped among the reeds/' We saw 
Scaup Ducks during the month of May, upon some of 
the numerous pools of water which are interspersed over 
the Shetland Islands, but were disappointed in our expec¬ 
tations that they would remain to breed. The eggs of 
this species were brought from Iceland by Mr. Proctor, 
who says, that it is there a very common bird; that it 
will, in some instances, make its nest among the thick 
herbage, and in others, upon the bare stones by the edge 
of the fresh-water lochs ; that it makes only a slight nest 
of a few stems of grass, but thickly lined with down, and 
lays from five to eight eggs. 
Mr. Yarrelhs correspondent, Mr. Dann, says that the 
Scaup Duck “ breeds on the swampy lakes towards the 
north of the Bothnian Gulf near Lulea, in considerable 
numbers. They are also tolerably numerous in the Dofre 
Fiel mountains, frequenting and breeding near swampy 
