ANAS STREPERA. 539 
; 
[§ 5540. Ezght—Marisma of the Guadalquivir, 1872. From 
Lord Lilford, 1873 and 1884. 
Lord Lilford furnished some notes on the habits of this species in Spain to 
Mr. Dresser, by whom they were published in 1872 in his ‘Birds of Europe’ 
(vi. p. 481), and the following are extracts therefrom :—“In 1869 I offered a 
high reward for identified eggs of this bird; and in the following year two 
nests were obtained for me, containing eleven and ten eggs respectively, with 
the hen bird shot from the nest in each instance..... I have this year 
received more eggs said to be of this species; but the only proofs of their 
authenticity, if proofs they can be called, are their close resemblance to the 
identified eggs of the present species, and the fact that, as far as I know, no 
other species of Anas lays an egg at all like that of the present bird in 
Andalucia.” | 
ANAS STREPERA, Linneus. 
GADWALL. 
§ 5541. Zwo.—Zana, 12 June, 1857. From Mr. Simpson 
[and Mr. Tristram]. 
Out of eight eggs taken by “ French mowers, who recognized the 
bird.” Mr. Simpson is pretty sure that this is a Gadwall’s. 
[The above refers to one specimen given to Mr. Wolley by Mr. Hudleston: 
a second, from the same nest, was given to my brother and myself by 
Canon Tristram, whose note agrees with that of Mr. Hudleston. | 
§ 5542. Zwo.—Zana, 10 June, 1857. From Mr. Tristram. 
Taken and marked “ Gadwal” by Mr. Tristram. 
[A second egg from this nest was given to my brother and me by 
Mr. Tristram, whose note was that there were eight hard sat upon eggs in the 
nest, which was in long grass in the swamp at Zana. } 
[§ 5543. One—Zana, 10 June, 1857. From Mr. Salvin. 
Mr. Salvin’s note is that this was from a nest of seven eggs taken by 
Mr. Tristram, who said he nearly caught the bird on the nest. Of the species 
Mr. Salvin wrote :— We found it only in the marsh of Zana, and though the 
bird was tolerably abundant we were able to identify thoroughly only,one 
nest, which Mr. Tristram took, the bird allowing herself to be almost caught. 
Our other eggs of this species were obtained through the French mowers, some 
of whom, and one especially, seemed to understand the specific distinction of 
