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having the entire underpart suffused with a deep and 

 rich rufous, or vinous tint. 



213. QUERQUEDULA ciRCiA (Linnaeus). Garganey 

 Teal 



An occasional spring visitant, arriving in April. 

 I have no notice of its having ever remained to breed 

 with us. Mr. Alington says that several have been 

 shot at one time or the other in the neighbourhood 

 of Swinhope. 



It occasionally occurs at Flamborough*, and in 

 the Humber in the spring. Early in April 1870 

 Mr. F. Hoare obtained a pair, male and female, on 

 the river. In the ' Zoologist ' for 1870, p. 2144, Mr. 

 Boyes has recorded three males and one female shot 

 on the river Hull in March, and on the 20th of 

 April another male. In the same neighbourhood in 

 1871 (see 'Zoologist/ 1871, p. 2644) a fine male was 

 shot by a farmer named Grant on the 20th of April 

 in a partly flooded meadow near the river ; it was 

 accompanied by a female, which was also shot a few 

 days afterwards by the same person ; both birds were 

 in beautiful plumage. A pair or two of Garganeys 

 usually visited the decoy at Ashby nearly every 

 spring ; and twenty are recorded as captured there 

 within twenty years. I am not aware of any occur- 



* Mr. Boulton had a specimen, a male, shot at Flamborough, 

 on the 19th of March. 



