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1 9th, when it was shot, and proved to be an immature male. It 

 had afforded me many excellent opportunities of studying its habits, 

 though very shy. Once, at the close of a violent shower of sleet, 

 it flew towards me and pitched on the water in a direct line with 

 the bush behind which I was lying. It fed by diving at the 

 narrow end of the Lough, and often associated with some Golden- 

 eyes. It was very reluctant to take wing ; but, when it did so, 

 would fly round and round the Lough at a great height, with a 

 peculiar motion of the wings, which readily distinguished it from 

 the other wildfowl. 



When swimming rapidly, it appeared to cut through the water, 

 but when resting quietly bore a rude resemblance to a small gull. 



The fact of its having frequented a small piece of fresh water for 

 so many weeks appears to be diametrically opposed to the usual 

 habits of this sea-loving species. 



H. A. Macpherson (Carlisle). 



Additions to the published Lists of Cumberland Plants. 

 — Ranunculus fluitans has flowered most freely this year in the 

 Eden — where it is about the most common plant there is — on 

 account, we suppose, of the long low state of the river. The 

 flowering plants growing in shallow- and quiet water, were always 

 shorter in the leaves than those growing in the streams, which did 

 not flower. On July 4th, near to Crosby, we found a very fine plant 

 with all the flowers double. Myriophyllutn spicatum occurs in the 

 Caldew. Stachys ambigua, on Dalston Green. Rumex nemorosus, 

 v. satigui7iius, at Thurstonfield. R. hydrolapathum, Moss Pool, 

 near Woodside. Valeriana pyrenaica was growing very rank this 

 summer (1884) in a plantation called the Gap, about two miles 

 from Longtown. This plant, according to Hooker's " Student's 

 Flora," is not indigenous. It gives out a most off"ensive smell 

 when decaying. Habenaria albida grows by the side of Derwent- 

 water. An old station for the rare Cephalanthera ensifolia has 

 been rediscovered this year near Talkin, Brampton. 



VV. Duckworth & P. Shepherd (Carlisle). 



