68 Mr. A. G. More on the Distribution of Birds 
TADORNA VULPANSER (Lann.). Shell-drake. 
Provinces I.-IV. VI.-XVIII. 
Subprovinces 2, 3, (4), (7), (10), 11, 17-19, 21, 22, 24-26, 28, 
30-38. 
Lat. 50° or 51°-61°. “ British” (or “ Scottish ”) type. 
Scarce in the south of England, and reported as extinct in 
Dorset, Kent, and Suffolk; but still breeds in North Devon, 
Somerset, and Norfolk, in the last of which counties it is de- 
scribed as decreasing. 
SpaTu.a cLtypeata (Bore). Shoveller. 
Provinces I].-V. X. XI. XIV.—XVI. 
Subprovinces 4, (7), 11, 15, 22, 24, 28, 31, 32. 
Lat. 50°-58°. “ British” (or “ English”) type. Not in Ireland. 
In the ‘ Zoologist’ (p. 5757) Mr. W. Thompson mentions a 
nest found in Dorset. Yarrell tells us that the Shoveller for- 
merly bred in Romney Marsh. It still breeds occasionally in 
Norfolk, and Mr. F. Bond has found the nest in Staffordshire. 
Mr. Hewitson mentions Hornsea Mere as a breeding-locality. 
The Rev. H. B. Tristram tells me that the Shoveller breeds oc- 
casionally in Durham; and Mr. Hancock marks it as breeding 
regularly in Northumberland. 
In Scotland the nest has been found once on Guillon Links, 
Haddingtonshire (Si W. Jardine); on the banks of Loch 
Spynie, in Elgin (Mr. St. John); and in the ‘ Zoologist’ (p. 3503) 
Sir G. H. Leith records that he has shot the female and found 
the nest in Dumbartonshire. 
CHAULELASMUS sTREPERUS (G. R. Gray). Gadwall. 
Province LV. 
Subprovince 11. 
Lat. 52°-53°. “Germanic” type. Not in Ireland. 
The nest has been found only in Norfolk, where Mr. A. New- 
ton tells me that this duck breeds regularly, at Narford ; but it 
is possible that the stock was originally the produce of semi- 
domesticated birds. 
