. A history of British birds . SCAUP DUCK. A NSERES. 423 AN AT ID^.. FuLiGULA MARiLA (Liniifieus^) . THE SCAUP DUCK. Fidigida marila. The Scaup Duck is a winter visitor to this country, andrather a late one, seldom making its appearance till theend of Octoher, or the heginning of November. About thattime, particularly if the weather be rough and cold, smallflocks arrive on various parts of the coast and at the mouthsof rivers, hwi do not often visit the waters of inland appear to prefer low, flat, muddy, or oozy shores, andare often numerous throughout the winter months on suchpo
. A history of British birds . SCAUP DUCK. A NSERES. 423 AN AT ID^.. FuLiGULA MARiLA (Liniifieus^) . THE SCAUP DUCK. Fidigida marila. The Scaup Duck is a winter visitor to this country, andrather a late one, seldom making its appearance till theend of Octoher, or the heginning of November. About thattime, particularly if the weather be rough and cold, smallflocks arrive on various parts of the coast and at the mouthsof rivers, hwi do not often visit the waters of inland appear to prefer low, flat, muddy, or oozy shores, andare often numerous throughout the winter months on suchportions of our coasts, where, in company with TuftedDucks, Golden-eyes, and other species, they are sometimespursued by wild-fowl shooters in their gunning-punts, andalso occasionally caught by fishermen in upright nets fixedin curving lines on perpendicular stakes in shallow bays. * Anas marila, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 196 (1766). 424 ANATID^. The Scaup Duck, however, in the Old World, where it feedson small fish, mollusks, aquatic insects, and marine p
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