378 REPORT—1840. 
A. ruficollis is a very rare visitant to England. A. Gamben- 
sis has been but once obtained, and whether the individual so 
recorded was a wild bird is very questionable, as the species 
does not appear to have been met with on the European con- 
tinent. 
Fam. Anatide. 
Sub-Fam. Anatine. 
Ireland. Great Britain. 
Tadorna Vulpanser, Flem. a8 
0 Tadorna rutila, Steph. 
Spathulea clypeata, Flem. 
Chauliodus Strepera, Sw. 
Anas Boschas, L. 
Querquedula acuta, Selby. 
Crecca, Steph. 
Circia, Steph. 
0 
” 
++++4+4 
a Querquedula glocitans, Vigors. 
Mareca Penelope, Selby. 
Three species, 7. Vulpanser, A. Boschas, and Q. Crecca, 
may be called resident from their breeding in Ireland and 
being met with at all seasons; but of the numbers of the two 
last which are here in winter, but a small proportion is bred in 
the country. Spat. clypeata is most probably indigenous, as 
in England. It has occurred in Ireland in May, and I once 
obtained an adult female, shot in July. Querq. acuta and Mar. 
Penelope are regular winter visitants. Chaul. Strepera and 
Querg. Circia (A. Querquedula) are of rare occurrence at the 
same season; of the latter I have not myself seen a duly-authen- 
ticated Irish example; it is noticed in Tighe’s Kilkenny, and 
in a catalogue of the Birds of Dublin supplied me by Mr. R. 
Ball. 
Tad. rutila and Querq. glocitans are extremely rare visit- 
ants to England. 
Fam. Anatide. 
Sub-Fam. Fuliguline. 
Ireland. 
Somateria mollissima, Leach. 
spectabilis, Leach. 
Oidemia fusca, Flem. 
» higra, Flem. 
0 
Fuligula ferina, Steph. 
0 
0 
»  Marila, Steph. 
» cristata, Steph. 
Clangula vulgaris, Leach. 
0 
Harelda glacialis, Steph. 
Great Britain. 
ins 
A: 
_ 
+ 
Fuligula rufina, Steph. 
a. 
»  Nyroca, Steph. 
» dispar, Steph. 
+ 
+ 
a. 
Clangula histrionica, Steph. 
ie 
ae ee _— 
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