340 THE BIRDS OF KENT 



" Three Pochards, two drakes and a duck, made their 

 appearance lately on a fish-pond here, where the pearly 

 whiteness of their plumage excited much admiration. 

 They disappeared at the approach of frost. The curious 

 thing was that thej' never took to flight, but swam about 

 in the middle of the pond." A male, labelled " Kent," 

 is in the British Museum. It has been obtained by Mr. 

 W. Oxenden Hammond at Wingham ; Mr. C. Gordon at 

 Dover; Dr. F. Plomley in Komney Marsh. A male in 

 the Maidstone Museum was shot by Mr. M. W. Martin, 

 on the moat at Leeds Castle, Kent, January 20, 1885. 



Genus NYROCA, Fleming. 

 WHITE-EYED DUCK. 



Nyroca ferruginea (Gmelin). 8.N., i., p. 528 

 (1788). 



Morris, in his History of British Birds, records, on the 

 authority of Mr. Chaffey, that a White-eyed Duck was 

 killed off the coast near Dover during the .winter of 

 1849-50. 



Genus CLANGULA, Boie. 



GOLDENEYE. 



Clangula gJaucion (Linnaeus). >S'.iV., i., p. 201 (1766). 



Morillon Duck, Boys, 1792. 



The Goldeneye is only a winter visitor to the coast of 

 Kent. 



The Eev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, in 1844, says : " The- 

 females are common in Eomney Marsh, but the males. 



