222 BIEDS OP NOEFOLK. 



who gave a figure of it in tlie ' VII. Jaliresbericlit des 

 Annaberg-Bucliholzer Vereins fiir Naturkunde,' wliicli 

 has since been reproduced by Dr. Blasius in the work 

 already named. The fourth was shot in Kahnar Sound, 

 between Sweden and (Eland, 20th November, 1881, and 

 sent to the Museum of the University of Upsala, as 

 described and figured by Herr Gustav Kolthoflf ((Efver- 

 sigt af K. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar ' 

 1884, pp. 185-190, pis. xxxi., xxxii.). 



" The association of a male smew with a female 

 golden-eye, on the water in St. James's Park, was long 

 ago noticed by Yarrell ; and, from the fact that both the 

 golden-eye and the smew, as ascertained by Mr. 

 WoUey (" Ibis," 1859, pp. 69-76), have the same habit 

 of nesting in holes of trees, or in logs purposely 

 hollowed out and set up by the people in countries 

 where both species breed, it is, perhaps, to be wondered 

 at that more examples of hybrids between them are not 

 known. To judge by the figures which have been given 

 of the specimens captured, they present an appearance 

 almost exactly intermediate between the two species. 

 The Swedish example has the bill and legs black as in 

 the smew, while these parts in the others have the 

 yellow colour of the golden-eye ; but the plumage of all 

 shows little difference." 



FULIGULA ALBEOLA (Lmnaeus). 



BUFFLB-HEADED DUCK. 



Mr. Stevenson has left the following note on this 

 species : — " But one specimen of this rare American duck 

 is known to have been killed in Norfolk. This bird, an 

 adult male, formerly in the collection of the late Mr. 

 Stephen Miller, but now in the possession of Mr. Eising, 

 of Horsey, was shot near Yarmouth, about the year 

 1830." The first notice of this example, which, at the 

 sale of Mr. Rising's birds, in 1885, was secured for the 

 Norfolk and Norwich Museum, seems to be that of the 



