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weather. In two instances, however, this species has 

 been killed in Norfolk in summer ; on the 2nd of June, 

 1856, an old male, in full nuptial dress, was shot on 

 Hickling Broad ; and a magnificent drake in full sum- 

 mer plumage, now in the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney, 

 was killed at Acle about June 14th, 1885. It was found 

 by some boys in an exhausted state in a ditch, on Acle 

 marshes, and killed by stones. These are, I believe, the 

 only occurrences at this season of the year, in Norfolk, 

 011 record. The Eev. B. W. Dowell says that the 

 immature long-tailed duck is known to the Blakeney 

 gunners as the "little mealy duck," and the adult as 

 the " sea pheasant."* 



FULIGULA CLANGULA (Linnseus). 

 GOLDEN-EYE. 



The golden- eye is known to the shore gunners as the 

 "rattle-wing," and, according to Mr. Dowell, to the 

 Blakeney fowlers as the "wigeon" the tufted duck, 

 as before stated, being there almost always called golden- 

 eye. As a winter visitor, both to the shore and to the 

 larger broads, it is not uncommon although not so 

 numerous as formerly the majority being immature 

 birds. It seldom appears far inland, but has been shot as 

 high up the River Yare as Earlham. The old birds do 

 not often make their appearance before the middle of 

 December, and are rarely seen after March. They are, as 

 a rule, the most wary of all fowl, but Mr. Booth says the 

 young birds are easily approached, for the most part 

 evincing little distrust till repeatedly alarmed. Mr. 

 Monement saw five, two of them mature drakes, in a 



* The Harlequin Duck (Fuligula histrionica) is reported by 

 the Messrs. Paget ("Nat. Hist. Yarmouth," p. 12), and Messrs. 

 Gurney and Fisher ((" Zoologist," p. 1380), to have been killed 

 twice near Yarmouth ; but Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun. (" Eambles of 

 a Naturalist," p. 266), has shown that in neither of these cases, 

 nor in a supposed third instance, mentioned by himself, can the 

 records be depended upon, and, accordingly, further notice of that 

 species is omitted from the present work. 

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