LONG-TAILED DUCK. L71 
case in severe weather. Young birds were formerly 
abundant on the Mersey above Dingle Point,’ and 
Mr. R. Newstead says they are frequently met with 
in the neighbourhood of Ince.* 
A Golden Eye in the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, 
was shot on the Dee at Eaton on December 4th, 1889 ; 
and a female in the same collection was killed by 
Mr. A. Cookson in December 1893, at Oakmere.* 
One in the Warrington Museum was obtained by 
Mr. Bennet at Walton Reservoir. We have seen a 
female which was shot on the flooded meadows at 
Sale in February 1897; and the man who stuffed it 
assured us that he preserved an adult male about 
four years previously, which had been obtained in 
the same locality. On October 31st, 1897, Oldham 
saw a party of three birds on Bosley Reservoir, and 
on November 27th, 1898, an adult male in company 
with a female or an immature bird on the mere in 
Alderley Park. 
LONG-TAILED DUCK. 
HARELDA GLACIALIS (Linnzus). 
The Long-tailed Duck is not often met with on the 
west coast of England, and only a few examples have 
been recorded from the Cheshire shore. Brockholes 
states that it has been killed on the estuary of the 
Dee,* and there is a specimen in Captain Congreve’s 
collection at Burton, dated December 1839. A female 
in the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, was shot at Burton 
on December 2nd, 1886.° 
1 Byerley, op. cit. p. 21. 2 Naturalists’ Scrap-book, p. 228. 
3 Dobie, op. cit. p. 325. 4 Brockholes, op. cit. p. 15. 
° Dobie, op. cit. p. 326. 
