DUCKS 457 



One, Sanday, Orkney, October 1831 : Baikie and Heddle, 



" Hist. Nat. Orcadensis," p. 74 ; Macgillivray, " Hist. 



Brit. Birds," vol. v. p. 21. 

 One, Caithness : Wilson's " Voyage Round Scotland," vol. ii. 



p. 180 ; Shearer and Osborne, " Birds of Caithness," in 



Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinh., vol. ii. p. 340 ; Gray, " Birds of 



West of Scotland," p. 362. In the collection of Mr. 



Sinclair, of Wick. 

 One, ilken, near Orford, Suffolk, Jan, 1834: Mag. Nat 



Hist, 1834, vol. vii. p. 151 ; Yarrell, " Hist. Brit. Birds," 



3rd. ed., vol. iii. p. 236. In the possession of Mr. 



Manning, of Woodbridge. 

 One on the Murrough of Wicklow, July 7, 1847 : Thomp- 

 son, Ann. Nat Hist, vol. xx. p. 171; "Nat. Hist. 



Irel. (Birds)," vol. iii. p. 65. In the collection of Mr. 



Warren. 

 One seen near Blackstakes, Suffolk, 1864, in company with 



Common Sheld-drakes : Hele, " Notes about Aldeburgh," 



p. 150. 

 One said to have been taken in a decoy on the Trent, near 



Epworth: Hudson, ZooL, 1864, pp. 9046, 9290; but 



shown to have been a mistake : NcAvton, to^m. cit., p. 



9363. 

 One near Tralee, co. Kerry, Aug. 17, 1869: Blake Kjiox, 



ZooL, 1870, p. 2105. 

 One killed '•' some years ago " at Cottingham, Yorkshire ; 



seen by H, B. Hewetson {fide Clarke). 

 One shot in a marsh in Clonea, Waterford, " about two 



years ago" {Jide A. G. More, writing in 1873). Now 



in the Dublin Museum, 

 One on the Solway, summer of 1888: Hastings, Trans. 



and Journ. Dumfries Nat. Hist Soc, 1890, p. 128. 

 Four seen, one shot, Romney Marsh, Kent, Sept. 8, 1884. 



Obs. Mr. Gurney informs me that this species 

 has twice been killed in Norfolk, but that on each 

 occasion the bird was found to have escaped from 



