48 CATALOGUE OF B1EDS. 



I at first thought they might possibly be young 

 Jackdaws, not being quite certain whether that species 

 had a white eye in its immature state ; but, on examin- 

 ing a Jackdaw's nest, I soon discovered that the iris 

 is the same colour in the mature and immature birds. 



The specimens were unfortunately not preserved, as 

 the weather was so hot that they were spoiled before I 

 was able to send them away. 



A few days later two more young birds in similar 

 plumage were killed in the same glen by the keeper, 

 who said that he saw them flying after a pair of old 

 Crows, one of which was black and the other grey. 



The specimens in the case were shot in the marshes 

 near Hickling Broad, in Norfolk, in January, 1873. 



They were disturbed in the act of making a meal off 

 a fowl that had escaped wounded from some of the 

 gunners. 



PINTAIL. 



Case 57. 



This handsome duck is more common in the northern 

 parts of the island ; a few, however, generally show 

 themselves during the winter all round the coast, while 

 in unusually severe weather I have found them plentiful 

 in both Norfolk and Sussex. 



On the north-east coast of Scotland these birds are 

 known to the local gunners by the name of "Wigeon 

 Leaders," their greater size and length of neck always 

 making them the most prominent birds in the flocks of 

 Wigeon with which they are generally found associated 

 in the firths on the coast of Eoss and Cromarty. They 



