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THE BUFFEL-HEADED DUCK. 



Clangula albeola (Linnaeus). 



About the winter of 1830 an adult male of this North American 

 species was shot near Yarmouth, and is now in the Norwich 

 Museum, having been purchased at the dispersal of the late Mr. 

 Rising's collection. In ' The Birds of the West of Scotland ' (p. 

 396), the late Mr. Robert Gray stated that he had examined a male 

 shot on the Loch of Loriston, Aberdeenshire, in January 1865, as 

 well as a bird of the same sex in the Banff Museum, obtained many 

 years previously on the Loch of Strathbeg ; while a bird — also a 

 mature male — from Bridlington, Yorkshire, taken in the winter of 

 1864-65, is now in the collection of Mr. J. Whitaker of Rainworth. 

 Some other records are unauthenticated, while one of them is 

 known to be essentially untrue. 



The Buffel-headed Duck is not known to have occurred on the 

 shores of the Continent, and even in Greenland Reinhardt was only 

 aware of the occurrence of a female at Godthaab, about the year 1830. 

 In America this species is found during the summer as far south as 

 the States of Maine, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa, and across the 

 Fur-countries to the Pacific, though rare in Northern Alaska. In 

 autumn, and again in spring, an important line of migration is 



