ADDENDA. 



AMERICAN SWAN. Cy<rmis americanus. ) Both these Swans have been 



! 

 TRUMPETER SWAN. Cygnus buccinator. j recorded as having occurred in a 



wild state in Great Britain ; the evidence, however, is doubtful and anything but 

 conclusive, and I have thought it better to omit any notice of them in these 

 chapters. 



Those who are interested in the subject will find full particulars of the supposed 

 occurrences in " Yarrell's British Birds," Vol. IV., Ed. IV., p. 322. 



PiNK-FooTED GooSE. Anser brachyrkynchus. The arrival of these Geese in 

 this season, (1897), in Lincolnshire, has been the earliest on record. On September 

 1 8th, a skein of seventy, flying from the coast towards the wolds, passed over 

 Brackenborough Hall, near Louth. In Yorkshire, Mr. F. Boyes, of Beverley, 

 records in the " Field," October 2nd, p. 537, that a small gaggle appeared on the 

 wolds on the gth of September. The Rev. Murray A. Mathew says, (in litt.j, 

 that the Pink-footed Goose is almost unknown in the south-west of the British 

 Isles, and that the White-fronted Goose is the common species. 



RED-CRESTED POCHARD. Fuligula rufina. A male Red-crested Pochard was 

 shot on the gth of October, 1897, on Littlewater tarn, near Haweswater, in 

 Westmoreland. It was taken to Mr. L. E. Hope, of Penrith, and examined in 

 the flesh by the Rev. H. A. Macpherson, who purchased it and presented it to the 

 Carlisle Museum. 



WniTE-EvED DUCK. Fuligula nyroca. For a most interesting account of the 

 nesting of this Duck in Slavonia, see Mr. W. Eagle Clarke's Field-notes, ("Ibis," 

 1884, pp. 136-147). 



END OF VOLUME FOUR. 



BRUMBY AND CI.ARKK, IvTD., PRINTERS, HUI.lv AND LONDON. 



