246 SYSTE:\rATic catalogue. 



specimens of the long-tailed duck are of rare oc- 

 currence in Sussex. It is strictly a winter visitor, 

 and a continuance of severe weather is necessary 

 to induce it to wander so far from its northern 

 haunts. In 1839 I shot a young male, atPagham 

 Harbour, out of a flock of scaup ducks. Immature 

 examples have occurred on other parts of the 

 coast, near Chichester, Brighton, and Pevensey; 

 and I liave a specimen which was shot as far 

 inland as Amberley, during the hard winter of 

 1844-45. 



Golden Eye, Fuligula clangula. Adult males 

 are unusual, but females and young birds are 

 killed on the coast every winter, and on rivers 

 and ponds several miles inland. I have shot it 

 at Pagham, and have received several specimens 

 killed at Burton and Pulborough, presenting that 

 state of the immature plumage in which it has 

 been called the Morillon. 



Smew, Mergus alhellus. Like the golden eye, 

 the females and young males of this species are 

 most frequently met with. They have been killed 

 in various parts of the county. I have, however, 

 seen many examples of the adult male bird. One 

 is in my own collection, which was shot at Shore- 

 ham ; there is another at Hollycombe, obtained 

 in that neighbourhood. Two have been killed at 

 Burton, on the upper pond ; one several years ago. 



