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GARGANEY. 
GARGANEY TEAL. SUMMER TEAL. GARGANEY DUCK. 
Anas querquedula, PENNANT, Montasu. 
Querquedula circia, SLLBY, 
Anas—A Duck. Qu erquedUsa — joo ecsereeree 
THE present, in this country, as a rather rare and at the 
same time very neatly marked species, is always desirable as 
an acquisition to a collection. 
In Europe it is plentiful in Holland and Germany, and 
is seen in Sweden, Russia, Kamtschatka, France, Spain, and 
Italy. In Asia likewise, in Siberia, the Dukkun in India, 
Persia, Arabia, China, and in the neighbourhood of the Caucasus; 
also in Africa, in Tunis. 
In Yorkshire the Garganey has more or less frequently 
occurred near Doncaster, York, Barnsley, Halifax, and other 
places. Mr. Dunn, of Hull, obtained two in the year 1840. 
Several specimens have been shot in the vicinity of Swinhope, 
Lincolnshire, as the Rev. R. P. Alington has informed me. In 
Cornwall two were procured near Falmouth, one of them at 
Swanpool, in March, 1846. In Oxfordshire they occur some- 
times, though rarely, in the neighbourhood of Weston-on-the- 
Green, and other parts. In August, 1830, three birds of this 
species, all young, alighted on some water near Otmoor, and 
were shot by a farmer. In Norfolk the Garganey is not 
uncommon in the neighbourhood of Yarmouth, and oceasionally 
breeds about there; it also is known in different places in 
the county. It has occurred in Surrey, at Godalming. Like- 
wise in Cambridgeshire. In Cornwall, Kent, Devon, and Essex, 
it is said to be rare. 
