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Mareca penelope. Wigeon. Spring. AUonby, February 

 11th, evening, two flocks of fifty and sixty birds seen by Mr. E. 

 Mann, flying east, as though on a long flight. Mr. A. Smith 

 writes under date April 8th : "There has been more Wigeou 

 [and Teal] about Rockclifi'e Marsh during the last three weeks, 

 than there was at any time during the winter. I have no doubt 

 that they have been detained by the cold weather and snow." 



Carlisle, April 21st, some flights of Wigeon passed up the 

 Eden, flying east ; wind S.W. to N.E. 



RockclifFe, April 21st, as at Carlisle. 



Rockclifi'e, April 22nd — 2Gth, some passed. 



Eockoliffe, April 27th, a great rush of Wigeon in an easterly 

 direction ; the movement was at its height from 9 p.m. to 

 10-45 j).m., and the birds passed up both sides of the Eden, with 

 intervals of about five minutes between the flocks, until 10-45 ; 

 after 10-45, the birds continued to pass, but at much longer 

 intervals. 



Ravenglass, Ajjril 23rd, two Wigeon on estuary ; last seen. 



Monkhill Lough, April 26th ; last seen. 



Autumn. Monkhill, September 7th — 13th, a large flight 

 arrived. 



Ravenglass, October 6th, two seen. 



Allonby, October 7th, a flock of fifty Wigeon. 



Dafila acuta. Pintail. Spring. Drumburgh, February 20th, 

 one shot. Autumn. Glasson, October 23rd, one killed. 



Chavlelasmus streperus. Gadvvall. Spring. Silloth, March, 

 two seen ; female shot, sent to Mr. Macpherson. Autumn. 

 Silloth, October 28th, a bird in first plumage shot out of a flock 

 of Wigeon ; sent to Mackenzie of Carlisle. 



Fuiigula feruia. Pochard. Spring. Silloth, February 26th, 

 two shot, and sent to Mr. Macpherson. Autumn. Silloth, 

 August 18th, some shot, as reported by Mr. Dawson. Alston, 

 October, one adult male shot, as reported by Rev. H. H. Slater. 



Note.— Mr. Macpherson examined a male shot near Alston in 

 January, 1884, and has also a memorandum of four shot, out of 

 a flock of thirty, in the Alston district, in a former year. 



