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Mr. F. Bond has informed me that the Gargeney bred also in the 

 fens of Cambridge and Huntingdon before they were drained. 



QUERQUEDULA CRECCA (Steph^. Teal. 



Provinces I.-XVIII. 



Subprovinces 3-12, 15, 18-23, 24-38. 



Lat. 50-61. " Scottish " (or " British ") type. 



The nest of the Teal has been found occasionally in most counties, 

 even of the south of England ; and in several of these, especially in 

 Norfolk, the bird is reported as breeding regularly. It is, however, 

 more numerous in the north, and is described as breeding annually in 

 nearly all the districts of Scotland. 



MARECA PENELOPE (Selby}. Wigeon. 



Provinces II. IV. ? VIII. ? IX. XVI.? XVII. XVIII. 



Subprovinces 6, n ?, 20 ?, 21, 32 ?, 34, 35, 37, 38. 



Lat. 50 or 57-61. " Scottish " type. Perhaps in Ireland. 



The nest has been found in two or three localities in England, but it 

 is only in the north of Scotland that the Wigeon breeds regularly. 



Mr. Borrer, of Cowfold, tells me that the Wigeon breeds occasionally 

 on the borders of St. Leonard's Forest, in Sussex. The nest was found 

 by Mr. C. S. A. Dickens in 1854, and a brood was seen again in 1862. 



In their 'Catalogue of the Birds of Norfolk,' Messrs. Gurney and 

 Fisher state their belief that the Wigeon " has been occasionally known 

 to breed " in that county. 



Mr. J. J. Briggs believes that it breeds occasionally in Derbyshire, 

 having seen young birds, apparently belonging to this species, frequent- 

 ing the marshy banks of the Trent in August and September. 



Mr. J. F. Brockholes informs me that in the summerof 1863 a pair 

 of Wigeons reared their brood at Puddington, in Cheshire, where he 

 often watched them w r ithin a distance of a few yards. Mr. Brockholes 

 had previously killed a Wigeon at the same spot, in August, 1862. 



Dr. De war once found a pair of Wigeons (and shot the male bird), in 

 the last week of June, in West Inverness ; so that it seems probable that 

 the birds breed in this county. Mr. R. Danford describes the Wigeon 

 as breeding regularly in Ross- shire, and the nest has been found in the 

 counties of Sutherland and Caithness. Colonel Drummond-Hay has 

 found the nest in Orkney : and Dr. Saxby tells me that the bird breeds 

 occasionally in Shetland, but only in backward seasons. 



SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA (Boie). Eider Duck. 

 Provinces XI. XIV. XVI, XVII. 

 Subprovinces 24. 28, 33, 35-38. 

 Lat. 550-59. " Scottish " type. Not in Ireland. 



The Farn Islands and the Bass Rock have long been known as 

 localities. 



