Exe) Mr, Marxwicx’s Catalogue of Birds, Se. 
in weight and fize to Mr. Latham’s defcription ; their bill and legs 
were iv a paler colour than he ‘deferibes them to be, and wien 
dreffed, their flefh was. tender and well-flavoured. 
No. 167.-—-The ScaupDuck, Fe ae 
Thefe birds frequent our fea-coaft in hard winters. On the 27th 
of January 1795 my fervant, in company With another perfon, fired 
amongft a flock of thefe birds confifting of near an hundred: he 
brought me a male and female; the latter proved to be the Anas 
frenata of Dr. Sparman’s Mufeum Carlfonianum. 
No. 168.—The Shieldrake. Anas Tadorna. 
This bird is found on our coaft both in winter and fummer: that 
it breeds here I am confident, having frequently feen a pair of old 
ones, and alfo a brood of young ones taken at Bexhill. 
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I beg leave to lay before the Society a‘Continuation of my Tables 
of the Appearance and Difappearance of certain Birds. 
A TABLE 
