78 BRITISH BIRDS. 



c. July 5th, 1910. Bognses Wood, near Roskildo, east 



Denmark. 



d. July 23rd, 1910. Balje on the Elbe (near mouth of 



K. Wilhelm Canal), Hanover. 



e. July 28th, 1910. Ho Bay, west Denmark. 



n. February 9th, 1911. Nsesbygaard, Forlev, Sjaeliand^ 

 east Denmark. 



These last two were from one nest. 

 /. x\ugust 5th, 1910. Villanueva del Rey, Guadiato 



(tributary of Guadalquivir), Andalusia, Spain. 

 g. September 6th, 1910. Between Hamburg and Harburg. 

 h. September 10th, 1910. Neuenkirchen (W.N.W. from 

 Harburg) , Hanover. 



These last two were from one nest. 

 ■j. October 5th, 1910. Warwerort, near Biisum, Holstein. 

 /. January 4th, 1911. Bourbourg, between Calais and 



Dunkerque, North-east France. 

 Mr. Mortensen remarks that the Herons, like the Teal 

 {D. 0, F. TidssJcrift. III., p. 124— c/. British Birds, Vol. III., 

 pp. 251-52), had all migrated in a south-westerly direction. 



Claud B. Ticehurst. 



LONG-TAILED DUCK IN KENT AND SUSSEX 



IN MARCH. 



In connexion with Mr. Nichols's record {fiupra. p. 50) of a 

 Long-tailed DUck, shot near Rye on March 31st, 1911, I have 

 a pair, which I obtained from Mr. Bristow in the flesh, and 

 which were shot on the same day at Jury's Gap in Romney 

 Marsh. I have not seen Mr. Nichols's bird, but presume that 

 it is in a similar phase of plumage to mine, the change to the 

 darker dress being almost com})letc. Mr. F. Smalley, who 

 lias done a great deal of work on the i)lumage of this species, 

 kindly examined my pair, and writes me that they arc inter- 

 esting, but quite normal, the only point about them being 

 that the male has already got its new central tail-feathers, 

 which is somewhat early when compared with birds obtained 

 in Orkney about the same date. The Long-tailed Duck is 

 one of the less-frequent visitors to the south coast of Kent 

 and Sussex, and adult birds are ahvavs rare, and it is but 

 seldom that they prolong their stay so late as March — in fact, 

 I have only two previous records, one which is mentioned in 

 Birds of Kent (p. 368). and the other, which does not appear 

 to have been previously recorded, is now in the Hastings 

 Museum. It was shot at Rye Harbour on April 21st. 1910, 

 and is a male ; its plumage-change har- been fully completed. 



