ANAS CIRCIA. D6] 
Garganey always has its nest in the marshes and often in the wettest places, 
Garganeys are sufficiently common there to be well known. The man had no 
object in telling me a lie, indeed I am not sure that he did not think common 
Teals to be the rarer birds ; certainly he said he had scarcely ever seen their 
nests. We saw no common Teal that day and only one pair of A. boscas. | 
[§ 5625. Eive-—Horsey, Norfolk, 31 May, 1884. “HE. N.” 
My brother Edward’s notes concerning these eggs state that hearing by letter 
from a man in the neighbourhood that he had found a Garganey’s nest with five 
eges in a very “ dangerous place” he had taken two of them out, and left the 
remaining three for my brother to see. He accordingly went the next day and 
was shewn the nest, which was on a bank about three feet above the level of 
the marsh, “in some long grass, well concealed, but within a yard of a path 
daily used by mowers, and certainly in a dangerous place. There were three 
eggs in it, which,” he wrote, “TI took, as well as the little down there was in it. 
It was lined with dry grass. So far as I could judge, there is no reason why it 
should not be a Common Teal’s nest.” However, the man said he had, on a 
former occasion, seen the bird on it, though he had not disturbed her, so as to 
see her wings, and was sure that it was a Garganey’s. “He could give no 
reason, however, why he thought so, beyond the fact that the Garganey was 
more ‘fickle’ than the Teal, by which he meant that she would desert her 
nest if once put off from it; and as this nest was close to where men were 
working, and where they passed every day, it was likely to have been 
disturbed, and therefore forsaken—as it was. He thought this would not be 
so with a Teal. On further talking to him, and asking why he was so sure of 
these eggs being Garganey’s, he said he had seen Garganeys only about that 
place, and no Common Teal. He had seen a pair of them that morning. The 
egos were fresh. On the whole I think they may be accepted as Garganeys’, 
though the evidence might well be more convincing.” 
[§ 5626. Zwo.—From Mr. T. C. Heysham’s Collection. 
LS 
Bought by me at the sale of the above-named collection at Mr, Stevens's, 
16th May, 1859, One is inscribed, apparently by Mr. Heysham himself, 
“ Garganey A. circia. P. Reuben’’—the last a name quite unknown to me in 
connexion with eggs: the other is marked “‘ Garganey,” in what seems to be 
Mr. Hoy’s handwriting, followed by “J. D. H.” Mr. Heysham was not an 
indiscriminate collector, and. I think both these, but certainly the last, may be 
accepted as genuine Garganeys.’ | 
5627. One.—From the late Mr. Scales’s Collection, 1885. 
This egg is inscribed in Mr. Scales’s handwriting, “ Garganey cut out of the 
Bird.” It is small and blown at the ends. I can hardly help connecting it 
with that mentioned by Hunt, in the account of this species in his ‘ British 
Ornithology ’ (ii. p. 311), as follows :—“‘ A pair of these birds were shot on the 
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