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feeding, he dived more quickly than the Goldeneyes, 

 and swam also with great rapidity, as though cutting 

 throuofh the water. At other times he bowed or 

 curtsied from side to side. 



Though the Goldeneyes constantly rose when a 

 shot was fired, and flew round high above the lough, 

 the Long -tailed Duck generally contented itself with 

 long low flights across the water, but on the few 

 occasions when it fairly rose, and joined the Golden- 

 eyes, it flew higher than any of its companions, and 

 exhibited a peculiar wavy motion of the wings. 

 With the exception of a few days at the end of 

 February, we constantly observed this bird on 

 Monkhill lough until March 19th, when it w^as shot 

 by a local fowler, whilst diving at the deep end of 

 the lough (where we had seen it first, on January 

 24th), and presented to the County Museum. It 

 weighed lib. lOozs. The bill was violet grey, tarsi 

 grey (darkest on the outside), toes light grey, webs 

 blackish, irides dark hazel. 



Genus SOMATERIA. 



S. Mollissima. Eider Duck. 



The Eider Duck is a rare winter visitant. Dr. 

 Stanley examined an immature bird, obtained near 

 Whitehaven prior to 1829 ; two adults were caught 

 in the fishgarth at Ravenglass in June, 1880 (Zool., 

 1881, p. 467), and others have been seen on the 

 Solway [R. Mann in lit.), and shot on Wastwater. 

 (a Parker MS.) 



