TEAL. 165 
of Kerridge, a hill north-east of Macclesfield. The 
birds were not decomposed, and had evidently met 
their death a few days before by striking the wall as 
they were flying in an easterly direction. They were 
lying within a few feet of one another, and the beaks 
of both had been crushed and broken by the force of 
the impact. 
PINTAIL. 
DaFILA AcuTA (Linneus). 
The Pintail visits the Dee Estuary regularly in the 
winter, and Dr. Dobie states that it was unusually 
numerous in January 1891. A specimen in the Gros- 
venor Museum, Chester, was obtained in that month at 
Burton Rocks, and another in the same collection was 
shot at Eaton on December 27th, 18901 Brockholes 
shot an old drake in the winter of 1868-69, as it rose 
from a freshwater pond near Ness.” 
TEAL. 
NETTION CRECCA (Linnzus). 
During the winter months odd birds of this species 
are shot occasionally in all parts of the county, and in 
the Mersey Estuary it is even common.! Owing to the 
reclamation of the marshes and the cultivation of 
the mosses, suitable nesting-places are now rare, but 
the bird still breeds at Bagmere, Brookhouse Moss, and 
elsewhere in the district between Sandbach and Somer- 
ford. Teal bred regularly in the Duckwood at Eaton 
1 Dobie, op. cit. p. 324. 2 Brockholes, op. cit. p. 14. 
