DUCKS 459 



One, from the Yorkshire coast, in a. game-dealer's shop at 

 Leeds, Feb. 26, 1895: Purchased by Sir R. Payne 

 Gallwey, in whose collection it is preserved. Field, 

 March 9, 1895. Exhibited by Mr. Howard Saunders 

 at a meeting of the Zoological Society, April 2, 1895 

 {Proc. Zool. Soc, 1895, p. 273), and figured by Lord 

 Lilford in his " Coloured Illustrations of British Birds." 



Obs. Out of seven reported instances of the occur- 

 rence of the American Wigeon in this country, only 

 two (the first and last) can be regarded as trust- 

 worthy. 



RED-CRESTED DUCK. Fidiguki rufina (Pallas). 

 PI. 30, figs. 11, 12. Length, 22 in.: bill, 1-9 in.; 

 wing, 10 in. ; tarsus, 1*5 in. 



Hah. South-Eastern Europe, North Africa, and Asia. 



One, Breydon Harbour, Norfolk, July 1818: Hunt, "Brit. 

 Orn.," vol. ii. p. 333, fig. 



Two, same harbour, winter 1826 : Hunt, in Stacey's " Nor- 

 folk," vol. i. p. Ixiii. 



One, Boston, Lincolnshire, Jan. 1826 : Yarrell, Zool. 

 Journ., vol. ii. p. 492. 



Several in Leadenhall Market, the same winter: Bartlett, 

 mit, vol. iii. p. 420. 



One, Surlingham, Dec. 1827 : Hunt, I.e. 



One, Horsey Mere, Norfolk, Jan. 12, 1844 : Gurney, Zool, 

 1844, p. 576. Formerly in the collection of Mr. Rising 

 of Horsey, now in the Norwich Museum. 



One, Swanpool, Cornwall, Feb. 1845 : Bullmore, " Cornish 

 Fauna," p. 37. Probably the specimen referred to by 

 Yarrell as obtained at Falmouth in March 1845. 



One out of eighteen, on the Thames, near Erith : Yarrell, 

 " Hist. Brit. Birds," 3rd ed., vol. iii. p. 330. Figured in 

 Gould's " Birds of Europe." 



One, Milford Haven : G. R. Gray, " Cat. Brit. Birds in 



