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THE BUFFEL-HEADED DUCK. 



Clangula albeola (Linn^us). 



About the winter of 1830 an adult male of this North-American 

 species was shot near Yarmouth, and is now in the Norwich 

 Museum, having been purchased at the dispersal of the late Mr. 

 Rising's collection. In ' The Birds of the West of Scotland ' (p. 

 396), the late Mr. Robert Gray stated that he had examined a male 

 shot on the Loch of Loriston, Aberdeenshire, in January 1865, as 

 well as a bird of the same sex in the Banff Museum, obtained many 

 years previously on the Loch of Strathbeg; while a bird — also a 

 mature male — from Bridlington, Yorkshire, in the winter of 1864-65, 

 is now in the collection of Mr. J. AMiitaker of Rainworth. Some 

 other records are unauthenticated, while one of them is known to 

 be essentially untrue. The Buffel-headed Duck is not known to 

 have occurred on the shores of the Continent, and even in Green- 

 land Reinhardt was only aware of the occurrence of a female at 

 Godthaab, about 1830. 



In America this Duck is found during the summer as far south 

 as the States of Maine and Wisconsin, and across the Fur-countries 

 to the Pacific, though rare in Northern Alaska. A single specimen 

 was obtained by Dr. Stejneger in January 1883, on Bering Island. 



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