SCAUP.
LLYGAD ARIAS, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH,
SCAUP DUCK. SCAUP POCHARD.
Anas mania, PENNANT. MONTAGU.
Fuligula mania, SRLBY. JENYNS.
Nyntca marila, FLEMING.
Anas—A Duck. Mania— ?
THE native countries of this species are those portions of the three
continents of the old world, which, under the name of the Arctic
regions, belong to the frozen north. From these it comes southward
in the autumn, to meet a milder winter. To t he former category belong
Baffin's Bay, Hudson's Bay, the Bay of Fundy, Greenland,
Iceland, Siberia, Lapland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia,
and to the latter the United States, and Mexico, Holland, France,
Germany, Italy, and Switzerland: in America it is likewise found
on the large rivers—the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi.
Their preference is for the sea-coast, especially where of a low and
muddy character, and from this it advances into lochs near it, estuaries,
and the tidal parts of rivers. This remark, however, must only be
taken as applying to the winter half of the year. They breed in
different parts of Scandinavia, as well as farther north.
They are with us regular visitants to such parts of the coast as
are suitable to their habits.
I n Yorkshire the Scaup Duck has been shot near Doncaster, York,
Hudtlersficld, on the high moors above that place, Barnsley, Shcllield,
and Sutton-upon-Dcrwent, and is, on the whole, a not uncommon
species in the winter.
I t is more or less frequent in the county of Northampton, says