. A history of British birds . 430 ANSERES. ANATIDiE. AN ATI DM. >^vi^;^>. FuLiGiiLA CKISTATA (Leach*). THE TUFTED DUCK. Fuligula cristata. The Tufted Duck is best known as a regular autumnand winter visitor to this country, frequenting our sea-coasts, estuaries, and lakes, where it generally remains tillMarch. During that portion of the year it is frequentlyseen in company with the Pochard, the Scaup, the Golden-eye, and other diving-ducks, but also in small parties,and sometimes in pairs only. It is a plump, short bird,depressed in form, swimming low; and although it frequentsour fresh
. A history of British birds . 430 ANSERES. ANATIDiE. AN ATI DM. >^vi^;^>. FuLiGiiLA CKISTATA (Leach*). THE TUFTED DUCK. Fuligula cristata. The Tufted Duck is best known as a regular autumnand winter visitor to this country, frequenting our sea-coasts, estuaries, and lakes, where it generally remains tillMarch. During that portion of the year it is frequentlyseen in company with the Pochard, the Scaup, the Golden-eye, and other diving-ducks, but also in small parties,and sometimes in pairs only. It is a plump, short bird,depressed in form, swimming low; and although it frequentsour fresh waters in considerable numbers, it is considered adifficult Duck to take in a decoy, on account of the facilitywith which it dives and gets back in the pipe towards theopen entrance and the pool. A tolerable and, apparently, increasing number of TuftedDucks remain to breed in the British Islands, and nowheremore abundantly than in Nottinghamshire, a county in * Anas cristata, Leach, Oat. M. and B. Brit. Mns. p. 39 (18]«). TUFTED DUCK. 431 which the species has been known to
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