GARaANET. 



177 



I have his lordship's permission to give), has probably 

 never been exceeded : — 



"^ Skirmish to finish the Season. Stanford, 31st January, 1889. 



The bag to my gun consisted of : — 



Pheasants 39 



Partridges 5 



Ked-1 egged Partridge 1 



Hares 9 



Rabbits 16 



6 Woodcock 1 



7 Snipe 1 



8 Jack Snipes 2 



9 Wild Ducks 23 



10 Gadwalls 6 



11 Pochards 4 



12 Golden Eye 1 



13 Teals 7 



14 Swans 3 



15 Wood Pigeon 1 



16 Herons 2 



17 Coots 63 



Total 189 



Amongst other Birds noticed during the day were : — 

 Pintails, Tufted Duck, Wigeons, Shovellers, Sandgrouse 

 (Syrrhaptes imradoxus'), Water Rails, Gulls, Kingfishers, &c. 



Walsingham." 



ANAS CIRC I A, Linnteus. 



GAEGANEY. 



In reading the very interesting notes left us by the 

 naturalists and sportsmen of the early part of the present 

 century, there are two things which cannot fail to strike 

 us. The first is the cold-blooded way in which they shot 

 every member of the Anatidce they met with in summer, 

 even from their nests. The second is, the very little 

 real information they possessed as to the breeding of 

 the birds of this family, which probably nested in their 

 midst. Possibly the latter of these two circumstances 

 arose out of the former ; but, whether or not such was 

 the case, we have now no means of deciding. It is 

 certain, however, that in the present day, when we 

 should blush to use a gun among breeding birds, we 

 either have a much larger number and variety of ducks 

 nesting with us, or, the telescope having taken the place 

 of the gun, we know much more about them, 

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