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produced four of these birds. The first, an adult male, 

 was shot on the 12th February, and two others during 

 the first week of April, and a fourth about the same 

 time was exhibited for sale in the Norwich Fishmarket. 

 Of the last three, two were males in very perfect 

 plumage, of which one was purchased by the late Mr. 

 Alfred Master, and the other by Mr. Stevenson. At the 

 dispersal of Mr. Master's collection Mr. Stevenson became 

 the possessor of the companion bird, and, when in turn 

 Mr. Stevenson's birds were sold, both passed into the 

 collection of Mr. Connop. About January 18th, 1867, 

 an immature male was shot on Hickling Broad (Gunn, 

 " Zoologist," 1867, p. 709) ; and on the 18th December 

 of the same year, Mr. J. H. Gurney, juu., saw a ferruginous 

 duck in Leadenhall Market, said to have been sent from 

 Norfolk. A pair killed at Dersingham, near Lynn, on 

 March the 20th and 21st, 1868, are now in Mr. H. M. 

 Upcher's collection. One killed on Breydon, on the 23rd 

 December, 1878, was sent to Mr. Gunn ; and, finally, on 

 the 30th December, 1886, a male, now in the possession 

 of Mr. E. J. Boult, was shot at Potter Heigham. 



FULIGULA MARILA (Linnseus). 



SCAUP-DUCK. 



Mr. Stevenson has summarised his notes on the scaup, 

 apparently to the year 1861, as follows : — " Young birds 

 of this species are met with at times as early as the 

 middle of October, but their numbers depend much upon 

 the season, and adult specimens are rarely killed until 

 the winter has fairly set in. With all other fowl they 

 were, of course, very plentiful in the springs of 1855 and 

 1861, and in the spring of 1856 a pair were killed on 

 Eickling Broad as late as the 22nd Aj)ril. A fine old 

 female scaup, in somewhat unusual plumage, was pur- 

 chased in our Fishmarket in March, 1858. This bird, 

 in the possession of Mr. Alfred Master, beside having 

 the white patch around the mandibles wider in extent 



