584 ATAYIA FERINA. 
AETHYIA FERINA (Linneus). 
THE POCHARD or DUNBIRD. 
§ 5721. Zwo.—Wassand Mere, Yorkshire. From Mr. G. D. 
Rowley, 1844. 
These were given to Mr. Rowley by our schoolfellow Mr. Henry 
Milner, who had a capital collection of eggs. 
§ 5722. One.—Wassand Mere. From Mr. Henry Milner, 
through Mr. Graham, 1847. 
Mr. Milner says he gets these eggs in great plenty from Wassand 
Mere, where they are strictly preserved by Mr. Constable. On 
looking at the map I see that Wassand is close to Hornsea, so that 
perhaps Hornsea Mere and Wassand Mere are the same piece of 
water. As it is some years since Mr. Milner gave the eggs to 
Mr. Rowley, it is probable that he knew of the Pochard breeding in 
Britain long before Mr. Bean and Mr. Tuke found the eggs near 
Scarborough (vide Hewitson’s ‘ Eggs of British Birds,’ ii. p. 371). 
Mr. Milner had previously written (21 August, 1847) :—“Graham’s 
eggs are the Common Pochard’s, and were obtained from Hornsea 
Mere where they breed in the greatest abundance. The eggs which 
I sent to Rowley [§ 5721] I obtained from the same place.” 
(Mr. Boyes has kindly informed me that Mr. Wolley’s conjecture as to 
Wassand and Hornsea Mere being different names for the same sheet of water 
is right—the former being the hamlet at the west end of it, and the latter the 
village on the east. The discovery of the breeding-place of this species near 
Scarborough was announced by Mr. Hewitson (wt supra) in 1845, and the 
mention therein of “ June last” would seem to refer to the summer of 1844, in 
which year, as above stated, Mr. Wolley received eggs from Wassand, and 
writing from Muoniovara in February 1855 to Mr, Hewitson he says that 
Mr. Henry Milner had eggs from that locality when “ at Eton fifteen years - 
ago,” which carries the knowledge of it back to 1840. But the Pochard had 
already been known for several years to breed in Norfolk, and more recently 
in Ilertturushire (cf. § 5240). | 
§ 5723. Twelve-—Hornsea Mere, Yorkshire, 1850. From 
Mr, Henry Milner. 
Mr. Milner writing, 1 April, 1849, says:—“I can get you some 
