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so-called Paget's Pochard, Fuligula homeyeri vel 

 ferinoides, now believed to be a hybrid between the 

 Pochard and Ferruginous Duck." Of this cross 

 Mr. Gurney has a second example, shot at Little 

 Waxham, Norfolk, in February 1859; and a third 

 and well-marked specimen was in the collection of 

 F. Bond. Other examples have been obtained and 

 recorded. (See Bartlett, P. Z. S., 1847, p. 48; 

 Zool, 1847, p. 1779 ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1847, 

 p. 422 ; and Stevenson, Zool, 1872, p. 2980.) 



The bird shot near Scarborough in January 1855, 

 and stated (Zool., 1855, p. 4631) to have been an 

 American Scaup-Duck, was examined by John Han- 

 cock, who found it to be a female Pochard. Prof. 

 Baird has remarked ("Birds of N. Amer.," p. 791), 

 on the authority, I believe, of Prof. Newton, that 

 the F. mariloides of Yarrell is not the F. mariloides 

 of Vigors ("Voy. H.M.S. Blossom," 1839, p. 31), 

 although Yarrell himself thought it was {cf. " Hist. 

 Brit. Birds," 3rd ed., vol. iii. p. 349). And here I 

 would hazard the opinion that while the former is a 

 hybrid, the latter is not a good species, having been 

 founded apparently upon small specimens of the 

 well-known Scaup-Duck, an inhabitant of both 

 Nearctic and Palsearctic regions. (See Baird, op. 

 cit., p. 791, and Swainson, "Faun. Bor. Amer. 

 (Birds)," p. 453.) 



Anas frenata, of which a specimen from York- 

 shire is figured in Sowerby's " British Miscellany," 

 tab. Ixii., is the female of F. marila. (Cf. Sparmann, 

 Museum Carlsonianum, ii. pi. 38.) 



