326 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT. 
* Harelda glacialis. Lone-ramep Ducx. 
“ Has been killed on the Estuary of the Dee.” (Br. p. 15.) 
A female shot near Burton-in-Wirral, December 2, 1886, was 
éxposed for sale in Chester, and purchased for the Museum 
Collection by Mr.2A. O. WALKER. 
Mr. Conereve has a specimen in the Burton Hall Collection, 
dated December, 1839. 
[Cosmonetta histrionica. Haruequin Duck. 
A specimen was recorded by Yarretu (Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. iii. 
p. 366) as having beea shot at Oulton Park. Mr. J. H. Gurney, 
Junr, has thrown much doubt upon the occurrence (Rambles of a 
Naturalist, p. 267.)] 
* (Eidemia nigra. Common Scorer. 
“An abundant Duck at sea off the north of Wirral. It 
occasionally comes to the Leasowe shore, and is also sometimes 
storm-driven to land.” (Br. p. 15.) 
Mr. R. Newsteap says he has seen it off Stanlow Point in the 
Mersey, but it is not very common. 
Abundant at sea along the North Wales Coast; common at 
Colwyn Bay [A.O.W.]; and Abergele [J.H.] 
“Killed at Talacre, Cart. Mostyn” [F.A. ] 
* Mergus merganser. GoosANDER. 
“Occasionally occurs on the Estuary of the Dee and on the 
Dee Marshes” (Br. p. 15.) 
Higher up the Dee a specimen was shot by Mr. T. H. Hicnerr 
of Chester, half a mile below Saltney Ferry, on January 9th, 1894: 
_[Coll. G.M.]; three others rose from the same spot. Still higher, 
one was shot at Eaton, December 4, 1889, and presented by Lorp 
Artuur Grosvenor to the Museum Collection ; and in the upper 
waters Mr. Ruppy has observed it, but less frequently than the 
Red-breasted Merganser. He writes that he observed two at Palé 
on February 5th, 1894. A fine adult male from the same locality 
(January 21st, 1892) was presented to the Grosvenor Museum 
Collection by Str Henry RoBeErtson. 
* Mergus serrator. Rep-BreasteD MERGANSER. 
The Grosvenor Museum contains three specimens from the 
River Dee, two of which are from Burton-in-Wirral. Srr PyErs 
Mosryn has’ an immature specimen at Talacre. 
Not in Brocsuotes’ List. 
--Observed-on the upper Dee by Mr. Ruppy, and more frequently 
than the Goosander. 
