164 RARE VISITANTS. 
One, Bedlington, Northumberland, 1846: Duff, Zoologist, 
1851, p. 3036. 
One, Belfast Bay, 11th March, 1850: Thompson, op. cit. 
One or more, Kyle of Tongue, Sutherland: St. John, Tour 
in Sutherland, vol. i. p. 144. 
One, Lowestoft, 7th Jan. 1854: Harper, Naturalist, 1854, 
p- 165. It is doubtful whether this was not an Eider. 
One scen in the Tyne estuary, winter 1847: Turnbull, Birds of 
East Lothian, p. 45; Gray, Birds of West of Scotland, p.380. 
One, Orkney, May 1868: Gray, op. cit. In the collection of 
Mr. E. Hargitt. 
One, Leadenhall Market, 17th Nov. 1870: Gurney, Zoolo- 
gist, 1871, p. 2445. In the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney. 
Obs. Mr. Bullock assured Col. Montagu that he 
had found this Duck breeding in Papa Westra, one 
of the Orkney islands, towards the latter end of June. 
In Baikie and Heddle’s ‘ Hist. Nat. Orcadensis ’ 
(1848) it is stated (p. 78) to be a rare occasional 
visitant to Orkney. 
STELLER’S WESTERN DUCK. WSomateria stelleri * 
(Pallas). 
Hab. Northern Europe; Northern and North-eastern 
Asia; North-west America. 
One, Caistor, near Yarmouth, 10th Feb. 1830: Paget, Sketch 
of Nat. Hist. Yarmouth, p. 11; Yarrell, Mag. Nat. Hist. 
vol. iv. p. 117; Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. in. p. 306. In the 
Norwich Museum. 
* Anas stelleri, Pallas, Spic. Zool. vi. p. 35, pl. 5 (1766). Anas 
dispar, Sparrmann, Mus. Carls. t. 7, 8 (1786). 
Originally described from specimens brought by Steller from 
Kamtschatka, and called the Western Duck, from having been found 
on the western coast of North America. According to Prof. Baird, 
