A NA TIDJE—D UCKS. 



Velvet Scoter : CEdonia fusca. 



An uncommon winter visitor to our coast 

 Henry Doubleday says (lo) 

 he saw one in 1832 in a Col- 

 lection at Colchester, obtained 

 •on the adjacent coast. During 

 the winter of 1829-30, " About 

 thirty were seen in the Stour 

 near Har\vich," but " they were 

 so expert in diving that but 

 few were shot " (Hoy— 12. iii. 

 436). Lindsey says (27. App. 

 63) that it is " only a winter 

 visitor " to Harwich. He 

 adds : " From its habits of 

 diving rather than flying, when 

 approached, it is sometimes 

 caught in the nets of our sea- velvet scoters, male a7idfetitale, i/n. 



fishermen.'" Mr. Ambrose has received it from Mersea. A few are seen in Handford 

 Water every winter (Kerry). It was recorded from Southend in the winter of 

 1860-61 (23. 7386). Mr. Hope has one shot at Maldon in Feb., 1874. 



Goosander : Mergus merganser. Locally, " Sawbill " and 

 ^' Merganser " (E. A. R). 



An uncommon winter visitor to our coast from autumn to spring. 

 Unlike its relative, the Merganser, it is not unfrequently met with 

 inland. 



Dale, writing of 

 Harwich, in 1730, 

 says (2. 402) : " This 

 is frequently to be 

 met with here," but 

 Mr. Kerry considers 

 it now rare there. He 

 records one (34. 

 4827) shot in the 

 harbour on Jan. 17th, 

 1876. Mr. Clarke 

 speaksof it (24) as oc- 

 casionally met with 

 round Walden. He 

 mentions a female 

 shot at Debden Half 

 on Jan. 30th, 1830, 

 one killed at Little- 

 bury three days 

 later, 'and two ma- 

 ture males at Aud- 



GOOSANDER, l/lO. 



ley End (now in the Collection there) on Jan. 27th and 29th, 1838. 



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