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APPENDIX. 
Species, additional to those mentioned in the text, recorded | 
as occurring for the first time in the British Isles. 
Order ANSERES. 
Family ANATIDAL. 
BAER’S POCHARD. Nyroca baer: (Blanford). 
An example of this Pochard was shot on Tring Reservoir 
on November 5th, 1901. Its skin was exhibited by the 
Hon. N. Charles Rothschild, at a meeting of the British 
Ornithologists’ Club, held November 20th, 1901. From 
evidence adduced, it was in all hkelihood a genuine wild 
bird) (Bull: 3.0:C vol. xu, pp. 25, 26). 
PACIFIC EIDER. Somateria v-nigrum (Linneus). 
An adult male Pacific Hider was shot at Graemsay, 
Orkney, in the early morning of December 14th, 1904, by a 
wild-fowler, named George Sutherland. It was seen in the 
flesh by Mr. Charles Oldham, and, when mounted, was 
exhibited by Dr. bowdler Sharpe (on behalf of Mr. Frederick 
Stubbs who received it in the flesh from a Scarborough 
dealer on December 17th, 1904), at a meeting of the British 
Ornithologists’ Club, held January 18th, 1905. This species 
had not been previously detected in Kuropean waters (Bull. 
B.O.C., vol. xv, p. 82; Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1905, pp. 183, 
184; ‘ Zoologist,’ 1905, pp. 74, 142, 148, 185; ‘ Field,’ 
February 4th, 1905, p. 190, and zbid., February 18th, 1905, 
P27). 
