and the North of Lancashire. 531 



35. Fuligula cristata. Tufted Duck. Rare. 



36. Fuligula Gesneri. Scaup Duck. Rare. 

 Gen. Oidemia. 



37. Oidemia nigra. Scoter. Rare : I have met with four specimens. 



38. Oidemia fusca. Great black Duck, or Velvet Duck. Very rare: 

 I have met with one specimen. 



Gen. Clangula. 



39. Clangula chrysophthalmos. Golden Eye. Frequently obtained in 



the winter. 

 Gen. Anas. — Sub-gen. 1. Mareca. 



40. Mareca Penelope. Widgeon. Common. 

 Sub-gen. 2, Querquedula. 



41. Querquedula Crecca. Teal. Common. 

 Sub-gen. 3, Chauliodus. 



42. Chauliodus strepera. Gadwell. Very rare. 

 Sub- gen. 4, Rhynchaspis. 



43. Rhynchaspis clypeata. Shoveller. Very rare. 

 Sub-gen. 5, Anas. 



44. Anas Boschas. Wild Duck. They breed abundantly with us. 

 Gen. Tadorna. 



45. Tadorna Bellonii. Shieldrake. Frequently met with. On the 

 coast about Lytham, and again about the mouth of the Wyre, are 

 numerous sand hills, which are converted into rabbit-warrens, and 

 being rigidly preserved the shieldrakes breed there regularly. 



*Gen. Anser. — Sub-gen. 1, Anser. 



46. Anser segetum. Bean Goose. Rare. I saw one in the hands of 



an animal-preserver in Preston, last winter. 



47. Anser palustris. Wild Goose. Frequently passes over and through 



the country in immense flocks. 

 Sub-gen. 2, Bernicla. 



48. Bernicla leucopsis. Bernacle Goose. Rare. 



49. Bernicla Brenta. Brent Goose. Frequently met with. Last win- 



ter, in Preston, I saw several brent geese, but looked in vain for 

 a specimen of the bernacle. I find from several writers that the 

 brents and bernacles were once abundant in Lancashire ; times 

 have sadly changed for the worse since those days. 

 Gen. Cygnus. 



50. Cygnus ferus. Wild Swan. Very rare. For particulars respect- 

 ing their capture last winter, vide ' Magazine of Natural History,' 

 vol. ii. n. s. page 333. 



* Canada Goose. I have not inserted this bird in the text, though I a- 

 gree with Bewick, and a writer in a former volume of this Magazine, that 

 it is a good British bird, and, par consequence, a Lancashire bird. Vide 

 * Magazine of Natural History,' vol. ii. n. s. page 334. 



Since the first part of this article was published, I have seen a pied fly- 

 catcher, which was shot two miles west of Blackburn, a few years ago; A 

 white sparrow was shot in September, 1836, in Lower Darwen, two miles 

 south of Blackburn. Four years since I had a beautiful pied blackbird ; 

 the wings were white, and there were large patches of white on other parts 

 of the body : as, however, it was badly preserved, and the moth began to 

 make its appearance, I was obliged to destroy it : the person who is in pos- 

 session of the white sparrow, has also a blackbird in the state of plumage 

 just named. 



(To be continued.) 

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