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the specimens obtained may have been imported 

 and escaped birds, it may be well to remark that 

 it differs from the European species in wanting 

 the white streak which extends from the bill over 

 the eye in the latter ; and the white line below 

 the eye is nearly absent, being very indistinctly 

 marked. It is also without the cream-coloured 

 band on the scapulars, while across the shoulder 

 there is a distinct transverse bar of white, no trace 

 of which is to be found in the European bird. 



The American Blue- winged Teal (Q. discors, 

 Linnseus) is likewise recorded to have been shot 

 in Yorkshire {ZooL, 1852, p. 3472) and in Cam- 

 bridgeshire {Zool., 1889, p. 228), as well as in 

 Scotland at Drumlanrig, Dumfriesshire {Nat., 1858, 

 p. 168) ; but as so many foreign wildfowl are annu- 

 ally imported for parks and ornamental waters, it 

 is impossible to say whether the solitary examples 

 occasionally found at large are truly wild or escaped 

 birds. The Blue-winged Teal was imported by 

 Lord Dunmore and turned out on a loch at Rodel, 

 in Harris. A bird recorded as the Blue-winged 

 Teal, shot in Cowpen Marsh, Redcar (ZooL, 1882, 

 p. 92), proved to be a young male Garganey (ZooL, 

 1885, p. 113). 



GARGANEY. Querquedula circia (Linnseus). PI. 28, 

 figs. 7, 8. Length, 15-5 in. ; bill, 1-6 in. ; wing, 7-50 

 in. ; tarsus, 1*2 in. 



A spring and autumn migrant, remaining to breed 

 in a few favoured localities, where it is known as 



