106 THE BIRDS OF DEVONSHIRE. 



others have been shot on the Exe, the Plym, and 

 in Torbay. Lieutenant Portman shot a fine drake 

 at Slapton Ley in February, 1886, 



LONG-TAILED BVCK.-HareJda fjlacialis (Linu). 



A WINTER visitant to our southern estuaries, but not 

 met with every year, even in the most favoured 

 localities, Mr. D' Urban records that the Exeter 

 Museum possesses a series of two adult and three 

 immature birds, all killed on the Exe between 1847 

 and 1877 (ZooL 1877, p. 105). Of these, one is 

 an adult male in summer plumage, killed in 

 1847. In Torbay, Baron A. von Hiigel 

 states that the Long- tailed duck is " of very rare 

 occurrence." He examined a young male killed 

 there in December, 1867. On the Kingsbridge 

 estuary, Mr. H. Nicholls shot a pair of birds in 

 October, 1865, " the male having the very long tail 

 feathers and all the appearance of a full dressed 

 bird." At Exmouth, again, Mr. Cecil Smith 

 obtained an immature bird in November, 1867, and 

 Mr. Waddilove writes, that he believes the sea-faring 

 habits of this duck cause its numbers on the Devon- 

 shire coast to be underestimated. An immature 

 bird was shot on the Exe during the present winter, 

 and came into my possession. In the north of the 

 county, the Long-tailed Duck is rarely met with. 

 The Rev. M. A. Mathew records an immature bird, 

 shot near Barnstaple, November 1858. 



