1893] Unsatisfactory Ducks. 389 



sorry about the three Ducks Pochard, Wigeon, and Pintail that they 

 have such very feeble claims to be reckoned among our Breeding Birds. 

 It must be very hard to tell the species of Duck. Now, tell me are the 

 males in \hefull adult plumage always, when breeding, or are they in 

 the brown summer dress? Do not you think, as I do, that the 

 Merganser has often done duty for a rare duck ? . . . . Stock Dove : 

 Is it not partly a winter visitor ? I think it probably arrives first as a 



winter visitor, and then a few remain to breed I have written to 



Warren, and he thinks of incorporating both his expeditions together 

 into one report. But this does not affect yours, and yours will do quite 

 well as it is. 



Of his botanical work, he writes a few weeks later to 

 Mr. Stewart: 



(December i8th, 1893.} I have just been entering the localities from 

 your Paper on South Clare and Shannon estuary, and there is one plant 

 about which I should feel very much obliged if you can kindly give me 



a little information I am working regularly at " Cybele Hiber- 



nica," and shall soon be able to send it to press. It is rather a long 

 and tedious task, as you must know from experience with Flora of 

 N.E. Ireland. I am glad to say I am fairly well and strong this 

 winter. 



