170 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
species on protected waters, such as those at Rostherne 
and Alderley, where the white sides of the drakes make 
them conspicuous at a long distance from the shore. 
SCAUP. 
FULIGULA MARILA (Linneus). 
The Scaup is a winter visitor to the mouths of the 
Dee and Mersey. Brockholes says it is occasionally 
shot in the estuary of the Dee, and there is a specimen 
from that locality in the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, 
which was killed on November 14th, 1888.2 Mr. L. 
Jones has a male and female which he shot at Hilbre 
Island in February 1895. The late H. Durnford 
comments on the early appearance of the Scaup in 
the autumn of 1872, for on September 21st of that 
year he observed a flock of fifteen or twenty birds at 
the mouth of the Mersey.* 
The Scaup is one of our most maritime ducks, 
seldom wandering inland, but an example, now in 
the Warrington Museum, was obtained on Walton 
Reservoir.” 
GOLDEN EYE. 
CLANGULA GLAUCION (Linnzus). 
The Golden Eye is a regular winter visitor to the 
Cheshire coast, and it occasionally occurs on inland 
waters. It is sometimes common on the estuary of 
the Dee Byerley remarks that this is especially the 
1 Brockholes, op. cit. p. 15. 2 Dobie, op. cit. p. 325. 
3 Zoologist, ser. 11. vol. vii. p. 3339. 1872. 
