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Mute or TAME Swan.1—Common enough in a domesti- 
cated state. Behind the Old Man’s Hospital, at Nor- 
wich, there is a swan-pit well worth a visit, where 
quantities of swans are fattened in a small enclosure. 
WHOOPER OR WILD Swan.—A winter visitant. In the 
Siberian winter of 1870-1, I saw a great many whoopers 
in Leadenhall Market, and was assured by the sales- 
men that about a hundred had been received from 
Norfolk. 
BEWICK’s SwANn.—A good deal rarer thanthe whooper. In 
February, 1880, I obtained two superb specimens near 
Holt ; one I shot and the other struck its head against 
a tree in the act of rising, and was so much injured 
that I caught it alive. 
SHELDUCK.—The shelduck, called ‘‘ burrow duck,” from its 
habit of nesting in rabbit burrows, is a resident, but 
now scarce. In its first plumage it has a white face. 
WicEon.—A common winter visitant, the wigeon has been 
occasionally noticed during the summer months on 
our inland waters, which has led to the belief that they 
have nested here, as at Surlingham, in 1873, at Narford, 
in 1877, and somewhere else in 1875, and eggs, sup- 
posed to have been wigeon’s eggs, have been once or 
twice found. 
GarGANEY.—A summer visitant, probably on the increase, 
breeding freely on several of our ‘‘ broads.” My father 
has a white garganey shot at Surlingham, one of the 
purest and most beautiful varieties I ever saw. 
TEAL.—A resident, receiving large migratory additions in 
winter. Inthe time of Sir Thomas Browne (l.c.) we 
learn that they were extraordinarily abundant, in part 
owing to the many decoys. Itis said that a thousand 
1 The Polish Swan is omitted, as not a good species in the writer’s 
opinion, though many Naturalists hold it to be so. 
