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see "Zoologist," 1850, p. 2879) ; l and though some of us had 

 tame eggs, I think no wild eggs were seen here till 1853, when Mr. 

 Wolley sent some from Lapland. It had long been known to the 

 Scandinavian ornithologists to breed there, and was supposed to 

 breed in some places in Northern Germany ; but it was not, so far 

 as I can find, until 1838 that the fact was proved by Naumann's 

 shooting two hen birds from the nest on the Krakower Lake in 

 Mecklenburg-Schwerin in that year. 



" It is remarkable that this species alone among ducks that are 

 common in this country should have had no peculiar name,- for 

 "Black Wigeon" and "Magpie Duck" are obvious makeshifts. 

 Whether it would be fair to infer from this that the Tufted Duck 

 was not anciently known to people in England and Scotland I do 

 not pretend to say, but it does seem to point in that direction." 



Since the foregoing was put in type, I have received the 

 following communication from Professor Newton, modifying 

 in one important point his letter of /th November : it is dated 

 30th May 1896 : 



" I think that in a former letter I told you that it was only by 

 inference that we could say that Willughby recognised the Tufted 

 Duck as British ; but I see that he actually included it in his 'Catalogus 

 Avium Britannicarum ' (Lat. ed., 1676, p. 23) '"Anas CIRRATUS. 

 Querquedula cristata sive Colymbis Bellonii, the Tufted Duck,' and 

 there is also a recognisable figure, Tab. Ixxiii., lettered 'Anas fuligula 

 prima Gesn.' In the English edition (1678) the corresponding 

 passage stands (p. 28): '6. The TUFTED DUCK, Anas cirratus. 

 Querquedula cristata sive Colymbis Bellonii.' So there can be no 

 doubt about the matter." 



1 As long ago as 1825, however, the late Mr. Girdlestone saw on one of the 

 Norfolk Broads what he believed to be an old duck of this species and three 

 young ones ; and Mr. Southwell thinks it probable that it " has habitually nested " 

 in that county "in small numbers" (cf. Lubbock's "Fauna of Norfolk," 1848, 

 p. 115 ; 2nd ed.,p. 158 (1879) ; and Stevenson and Southwell, "Birds of Norfolk," 

 vol. iii., 1890. W. E. 



2 Except the very local use of "Arp" mentioned by Girdlestone ("Trans. 

 Norf. and Norw. Nat. Soc.," ii. p. 396; Stevenson and Southwell, "Birds of 

 Norfolk," iii. p. 213), which must have been restricted to a very small area. A. N. 



