164 BARE VISITANTS. 



One, Bedlington, Northumberland, 1846 : Duff, Zoologist, 

 1851, p. 3036. 



One, Belfast Bay, llth March, 1850 : Thompson, op. cit. 



One or more, Kyle of Tongue, Sutherland : St. John, Tour 

 in Sutherland, vol. i. p. 144. 



One, Lowestoffc, 7th Jan. 1854 : Harper, Naturalist, 1854, 

 p. 165. It is doubtful whether this was not an Eider. 



One seen in the Tyne estuary, winter 1847 : Turnbull, Birds of 

 East Lothian, p. 45; Gray, Birds of West of Scotland, p. 380. 



One, Orkney, May 1868 : Gray, op. cit. In the collection of 

 Mr. E. Hargitt. 



One, Leadenhall Market, 17th Nov. 1870 : Gurney, Zoolo- 

 gist, 1871, p. 2443. In the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney. 



Obs. Mr. Bullock assured Col. Montagu that he 

 had found this Duck breeding in Papa Westra, one 

 of the Orkney islands, towards the latter end of June. 

 In Baikie and Heddle's ' Hist. Nat. Orcadensis ' 

 (1848) it is stated (p. 78) to be a rare occasional 

 visitant to Orkney. 



STELLEB'S WESTERN DUCK. Somateria stelleri * 

 (Pallas). 



Hab. Northern Europe; Northern and North-eastern 

 Asia ; North-west America. 

 One, Caistor, near Yarmouth, 10th Feb. 1830 : Paget, Sketch 



of Nat. Hist. Yarmouth, p. 11 ; Yarrell, Mag. Nat. Hist. 



vol. iv. p. 117; Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. iii. p. 306. In the 



Norwich Museum . 



* Anas stelleri, Pallas, Spic. Zool. vi. p. 35, pi. 5 (1766). Anas 

 dispar, Sparrmann, Mus. Carls, t. 7, 8 (1786). 



Originally described from specimens brought by Steller from 

 Kamtschatka, and called the Western Duck, from having been found 

 on the western coast of North America. According to Prof. Baird, 



