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writing, and is apparectly from the first of the nests noted in the extracts 
from his diary quoted by Mr. Stevenson (Birds of Norfolk, iii. p. 138) :— 
“1835, May 10th, Eight Shoveler’s eggs found on the warren (Stanford), 
placed on the ground with scarcely any nest, found within a few days of 
hatching.” Mr. Hewitson (Brit. Ool, text to pl. xciv.) says that he received a 
specimen from Mr, Salmon taken on that very day, and it does not seem 
that he ever took another nest, though he found one with a single egg 
18 May, 1836, the young of which he wrote were “all hatched ” on 1 June. 
In his paper, dated in that month and year (Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 527), he 
says :—‘“ A pair of this most beautiful species of duck has hitherto annually 
bred amongst some green rushes on the warren at Stanford.” ] 
[§ 5613. Two.— (Prestwick Carr, before 1837?) From 
Mr. T. C. Heysham’s Collection. 
These were bought by me at the same time as the last. One is inscribed 
by Mr. Heysham ‘‘Shoveler, Hancock,” the other “Shoveler” only, but 
they look as if they belonged to the same nest. The ticket accompanying 
them, also in Mr. Heysham’s writing, bears ‘ Recd. from Mr. J. Hancock 
March 24, 1857, by Mr. Losh.” There can be hardly any doubt that they 
were taken at Prestwick, for, as above shewn (§ 5609), Mr. Hancock, beginning 
in 1835, had obtained several from that locality, and these may be of that 
very year. I find the name of “ Robert Losh, Esq., Grange, Milnethorpe, 
Lancashire,” in the list of subscribers to Mr. Hewitson’s ‘ British Oology’, 
indicating a person interested in birds’ eggs. | 
[§ 5614. One.—Prestwick Carr, May, 1852. ‘H.'T. Mennell,” 
From Mr. Hancock, 1855. 
Received direct from Mr. Hancock (cf. §§ 5609 and 5613), who in a letter of 
23 April, 1855, said that he delayed sending the specimen until he “could 
meet with the finder, that he might write his name upon the specimen. 
When found the bird flew from the nest, which contained eleven eggs.” 
Mr. Hancock added : “‘ Mr, Mennell is an intimate friend of mine and a very 
careful collector; you may therefore rely upon the veritability of the 
specimen. | 
[§ 5615. Zwo.—Loch Spynie, Moray, (25 May?) 1852. 
« ¥. Chas. St. John.” From Mr. Hancock, 1854. 
Hewitson, ‘ Eggs of British Birds,’ ed. 3, pl. exii. fig, 2. 
Sent to me by Mr. Hancock, as received from Mr. Charles St. John. These 
can hardly be from any other nest then that mentioned in the latter’s 
posthumously-published ‘ Natural History and Sport in Moray’ (p. 151) :— 
““ May 28 (1852).—To-day we found the .Shoveller’s nest, eleven eggs, in a 
very wet grassy place; the bottom of the nest quite wet—not a creat deal of 
