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tion, and the latter is the original of the accompanying 

 illustration drawn by Mr. Wolf, probably in 1862. The 

 plate seems to have been finished early in 1865, and 

 therefore, although only now issued twenty-five years 

 after its completion, it was certainly the first English 

 coloured representation of this bird ever made. A third 

 example occurred on the 13th November, 1871 ; it was 

 killed on Hickling Broad during a severe frost by Mr. 

 Booth, and is now in that gentleman's collection. In 

 the " Rough Notes " is a figure of this last bird side by 

 side with the common pochard.* 



FULIGULA NYROCA (Giildenstadt). 

 FERRUGINOUS OR WHITE-EYED DUCK. 



Although the " white-eyed " duck has been killed in 

 more than twenty instances in Norfolk, it must still be 

 regarded as a rare and uncertain visitant to this county, 

 occurring between the months of November and April, 

 and generally in very severe weather. f Of fifteen indi- 



* It may be remarked that this hybrid was noticed in Germany 

 not many years after its first occurrence here, and, as in Eng- 

 land, received recognition as a distinct species under the name 

 of Fuligula homeyeri, Badeker. Both sexes are described and 

 figured in " Naumannia " for 1852 (Heft i., pp. 12-15), but, as in 

 England, it is now there also regarded as a hybrid. The specimen 

 of a duck obtained in a London market many years ago by Mr. 

 Henry Doubleday, and referred by him and Mr. Yarrell to the 

 American scaup duck, was figured by the latter in the first three 

 editions of his " British Birds." It is now in Mr. Bond's collection, 

 and is obviously a hybrid, but whether of the same cross as the 

 so-called " Paget's pochard" has not been positively determined. 



f As this was quite the reverse of what might have been expected, 

 I furnished my friend Mr. A. W. Preston, F.E. Met. Soc., with a 

 list of the dates on which this bird is known to have been met with 

 on the Norfolk coast, asking him to be kind enough to inform me 

 what had been the weather prevailing at or immediately previous 

 to the occurrence ; this he did with the result as above stated. 

 Mr. Preston remarks, " On the other side I send you notes of the 

 prevailing character of the weather in the east of England at the 



