TUFTED DUCK.
LLYGAI) GOPPOG, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH.
TUFTED POCHARD. BLACK WIG EON.
Anas fuiigula, PENNANT. MONTAGU.
Fuiigula cristate, SELBY. JENYNS.
Nyroca fuiigula, FLEMING.
Anas—A Duck. Fuiigula— ?
THE Tufted Duck is yet another northern species, frequenting, in
Europe, Lapland, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, and coming southwards
before winter to the warmer climes of Italy, France, Germany,
Holland, Switzerland, and Hungary. In Asia, it spreads over parallel
districts, and is found in the neighbourhood of the Caucasian range,
in Persia, and, eastward, in India, in the Dukkun and Himalaya, as
far as Japan. It is stated also to exist in the corresponding latitudes
of North America.
Its haunts arc the still waters of inland lakes, ponds, tarns, and
the estuaries, inlets, and bays of the sea; the former in the summer,
the latter in the winter season of the year.
A few pairs of these birds breed in Holland; also in the neighbourhood
of Lulea, on the Gulf of Bothnia, and other places in t he
south; but the vast majority seek the retirement of the north.
I n Yorkshire, this species has been procured near Doncaster, Leeds,
Barnsley, Huddersfleld, on the high moors near there, York, at times
abundantly, Halifax, a male shot in January, 1832, and a male and
female March 10th., 1836, and divers other places. The Tufted Duck
has been not unfrequently obtained in Cambridgeshire. It has also
been killed several times in hard winters near Lilford, Northamptonshire,
the Hon. T . L. Powys informs me; and is occasionally seen
on Croxby Lake, Lincolnshire, the Bev. E . P . Alington has written