140 BIKDS OF LANCASHIRE. 



quantities of Fowls, as Curlews, Curleyhilps, Wild 

 Ducks, Wild Geese, and Swans, which are there some- 

 times in great numbers"), is the present Marton mere, 

 near Poulton-le-Fylde, which drains into the Wyre; 

 it is much reduced in size, covering now under ten 

 acres probably, and becoming less every year. 



