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surface, and a hundred yards from any water. Another 

 was found at Thornton Abbey, in Lincolnshire, near 

 the top of a large ivy-covered ash tree; another in 

 an old ruin. Sir William Jardine mentions one built 

 on the top of a precipitous rock, and Audubon one 

 in the middle of some corn, a mile from any water. 

 Bishop Stanley records an instance of a nest placed 

 on the roof of a 'lowly thatched cottage' by the water 

 side, in the Regent's Park, London. A pair built near 

 Nunburnholme, in May, 1876, a full half-mile from 

 our stream or any other water. I saw one of the birds 

 flying that way in the afternoon, and was told of the 

 fact in the evening of the same day. 



GARGANEY. 



GARGANEY DUCK. GARGANEY TEAL. 

 PLATE CXCI. FIGURE I. 



Anas querquedula, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Querquedula circia, SELBY. 



Garganey begins to lay, as Mr. Hoy has re- 

 corded, in a communication to Mr. Hewitson, about 



the middle of April, or towards the end of the month, 



or the beginning of May. 



The nest, according to the same authority, is made 



