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are also by far the most wary, and always rise first on 

 the near approach of danger. 



I have seen a few immature Pintails, which showed 

 some of the down on the head, killed in this country. 

 They seemed almost too young to have crossed from 

 the Continent, but that, I suppose must have been the 

 case, as I have never heard of this duck nesting in 

 Great Britain. 



The specimens in the ease were shot on Loch Slyn, 

 near Tain, in the east of Ross-shire, in March, 1869. 



TEAL. 



Case 58. 



The Teal is one of our commonest ducks, numbers 

 remaining with us all the year round to rear their 

 young, and large flocks arriving from the Continent in 

 the winter, generally making their appearance a day or 

 two before we are visited b}'' severe weather. 



They are usually unsuspicious of danger, but, like all 

 wildfowl, they have their restless moods, and when this 

 is the case, it is almost impossible to approach within 

 gunshot of them. 



The female and brood were obtained on a hill loch, 

 in the west of Ross-shire, in May, 1868 ; the male 

 being killed, near Bonner Bridge, earlier in the season. 



NORFOLK PLOVER. 



Case 59. 



The true home of this bird in the British Islands is, as 

 its name denotes, in the eastern counties. On the 



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