560 ANAS CIRCIA. 
Hoveton. I saw three or four lots of young birds, and we shot several. 
There was also one Teal’s nest on the same water. Mr. Blofield took the 
Garganey’s eggs himself, and is quite certain about them. If you want any 
more, Mr. Blofield says you are welcome to them.”’] 
[§ 5623. One.—Hoveton, 15 April, 1862. “T.J.B.” From 
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Mr. Blofield, through Mr. T. H. Burroughes and 
Lord Lilford. 
This was given to me by Lord Lilford, who had it from his brother-in-law, 
Mr. Burroughes. It is inscribed by Mr. Blofield, “ Taken by me,” with the 
place and time as above. | 
5624. Three —Ranworth, Norfolk, 1873. 
Obtained by me, 10 June, 1873, when visiting this broad with Mr. Stevenson 
(§ 992). We were in a boat nearly the whole day. On starting from the 
staithe, there was a Moor-Buzzard wheeling about, and I had a good look. at 
him with my glasses, seeing his cream-coloured head. The man who took us, 
gamekeeper and furmerly decoy-man, said the bird had been about for some 
days. We saw a few Herons, two pairs of Redshanks, which were very noisy 
and probably had young, a few Snipes, plenty of Coots, and “ Tarrocks ”—as 
they here call the Black-headed Gulls. Just as we had finished our 
luncheon, a small Duck came flying over, as if prepared to drop near us, and 
our man exclaimed “Summer Teal!” I watched it as iv went on flying 
round. It was soon joined by another and I then saw with my glasses that 
the second was a Garganey-drake. We afterwards put up another duck, from 
the side of the river—the Bure. All this time we had not been on the broad 
itself, but on the river, and among the reeds and rushes on the right bank of 
it. We then-went to the broad, and saw two or three of the pipes of the 
decoy, now disused—and among them that figured by Mr. Lubbock (Fauna 
of Norfolk, 1845, facing p. 94). There were three if not four pairs of Grebes 
on the water, one, a fine old cock with a great crest and horns stuck up, I saw 
well. They were not much disturbed at us. No young did I see, but our 
man said there were some. However, it was getting late,and we had to 
return to the staithe. While the horse was being put into the carriage, 
I went to a cottage close by where lived a reed-cutter, who had a good many 
nests he had come upon. Among them one of Panurus biarmicus, which I 
got from him (§ 992), and three eggs of the Summer Teal (‘‘ Gardiners, some 
folk call ’em,” he said) which he had found in the “ mashes,” the nest having 
been spoilt by the unseemly behaviour of a cow, and deserted in consequence. 
He had none of the down, indeed he said that as there were but three eggs, 
there was very little of it. The eggs were much discoloured, but I took some 
trouble with them, and they look very respectable. The reed-cutter said, and 
the other men agreed with him, that there is no mistaking a Summer-Teal’s 
nest for that of a common Teal—not only is the latter an earlier breeder, 
but its nests are always away from the water, on the upland; whereas the 
