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one on the Usk in 1889. Some years ago 
I killed a Scaup under rather singular 
circumstances in Wiltshire. I kept some 
very small black East Indian ducks on a 
pond quite in the country: the man who 
looked after them told me that a strange 
duck was with them, but was very wild. 
I was returning from snipe-shooting at 
the time, and going to the pond the 
stranger immediately dived, and I killed 
it on its reappearance with a charge of 
snipe-shot, and found it was a female 
Scaup in perfect plumage. Doubtless it 
had mistaken the tame black ducks for a 
flock of its own kind. One was also 
killed at Llangorse Lake on the 28 Oct., 
1893, by Lieut. Armitage, and was identi- 
fied by me; it was a drake. 
TUFTED DUCK, Fuligula cristata. 
Not nearly as rare as the preceding, 
though occurring here at intervals. One 
was shot on the Wye at Clyro, near Hay, 
‘’ and Mr. Williams-Vaughan has another 
in his collection that was killed in the 
county. The late Mr. David Thomas ° 
had also a specimen procured on Lan- 
gorse Lake, where years ago I have no 
