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AN SERES. 



ANATID^. 



A NATIVE. 



Clangula albeola (Linnaeus*). 

 BUFFEL-HEADED DUCK. 



Fuligula albeola. 



This American species was included by Donovan in bis 

 'Britisb Birds' (vol. 10, pi. 226), concluded in 1819, but 

 witbout mention of tbe autbority on wbicb it was given, or 

 any record of tbe place of capture. In tbe winter of 1830, 

 or about tbat time, a male was sbot near Yarmoutb, in 

 Norfolk, wbicb passed into tbe possession of tbe late Mr. 

 Stepben Miller, and subsequently into tbat of Mr. Kising, 

 of Horsey. In tbe autumn of 1841 tbe tben curator of tbe 

 Museum of Natural History at Margate sent word to tbe 

 Autbor tbat during a recent visit to Orkney, be bad tbere 



•' Anns Albeola, Linnaeus, Sjsfc. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 199 (1766). 



