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ANSERES. 



ANATID^. 



ANATIBjE. 



Clangula albeola (Linnaeus*). 

 BUFFEL-HEADED DUCK. 



Fuligula albeola. 



This American species was included by Donovan in his 

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

 without mention of the authority on which it was given, or 

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

 or about that time, a male was shot near Yarmouth, in 

 Norfolk, which passed into the possession of the late Mr. 

 Stephen Miller, and subsequently into that of Mr. Rising, 

 of Horsey. In the autumn of 1841 the then curator of the 

 Museum of Natural History at Margate sent word to the 

 Author that during a recent visit to Orkney, he had there 



* Anas Albeola, Linnasus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 199 (1766). 



