HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
GADWALL. 
GADWALL DUCK. COMMON GADWALL. 
Anas strepera, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 
Chauliodus strepera, SELBY. 
Anas—A Duck. Strepera—A factitious word from Strepe—To rustle. 
Ts is a rare species with us, but specimens are obtained 
now and then throughout the country. 
On the continent of Europe it is met with in Spain, France, 
Italy, Holland, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, Norway, and 
Sweden, as also in Iceland. On that of Asia, in’ Siberia, 
India, the country near the Caucasus, China, Japan, and 
Persia. In Africa likewise, in the northern parts; and in 
America, from the fur countries through the United States 
to South Carolina. 
In Yorkshire, two were obtained on the Humber, about - 
the 10th. of March, 1851; others near Doncaster. It has 
been met with, but rarely, near York, and also at Swillington, 
the seat of Sir John Lowther, Bart., near Leeds. In Norfolk, 
two or three used to be shot every year near Yarmouth, on 
Breydon. Two were on sale in the Cambridge market, on 
the 25th. of February, 1824. One, of which Mr. M. C. Cooke 
has informed me, was obtained in the vicinity of Ingham, in 
Norfolk; the Hon. T. Powys mentions the occurrence of 
the species in Northamptonshire. Jn Cornwall, it has been 
met with at Gwyllyn Vase, near Falmouth. In Oxfordshire. 
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