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following local catalogues, although without any par- 
ticulars:—Couch, Cornish Fauna, p. 24; Rodd, in 
Guide Book to Cornwall, p. 129; Somerset, Archeeol. 
Proc. p. 146; Osborne & Shearer’s Birds of Caithness, 
in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb. vol. ii, p. 340; Wilson, 
Voyage round Scotland, vol. ii. p. 180. 
SPUR-WINGED GOOSE. Plectropterus gambensis 
(Linnzus). 
Hab. Western and Southern Africa. 
One, St. Germains, Cornwall, June 1821: Bewick, Brit. 
Birds, vol. ii. p. 313, figure. 
One near Banff, Feb. 1855: Naturalist, 1855, p. 181; 
Edward, Zoologist, 1860, p. 6968 ; Gray, Birds of West of 
Scotland, p. 353. 
One, Boveney Weir, Berks, winter 1858-59: Clark Kennedy, 
Birds of Berks and Bucks, p. 201. 
One, Upavon, Wilts, 4th Sept. 1869: Dr. Moses, Science 
Gossip, March 1870. 
Obs. The distinctness of this species from P. riip- 
pelli of Sclater, about which some doubt has been ex- 
pressed (cf. Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas), has been satis- 
factorily established by Mr. Sclater, P. Z. 8. 1859, 
p. 131, and 1860, p. 38. An excellent coloured plate 
by Wolf, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 131, shows both species in 
juxtaposition. 
RUDDY SHELDRAKE. Tadorna rutila (Pallas). 
Hab. Kastern Europe and Asia. 
One near Blandford, Dorset, winter 1776: Fox, Synops. 
Newcastle Museum. In the Newcastle Museum. 
