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APPENDIX. 



Species, additional to those mentioned in the text, recorded 

 as occurring for the first time in the British Isles. 



Order ANSERES. 



Family ANATID^E. 



BAER'S POCHARD. Nyroca baeri (Blanford). 



An example of this Pochard was shot on Tring Keservoir 

 on November 5th, 1901. Its skin was exhibited by the 

 Hon. N. Charles Rothschild, at a meeting of the British 

 Ornithologists' Club, held November 20th, 1901. From 

 evidence adduced, it was in all likelihood a genuine wild 

 bird (Bull. B.O.C., vol. xii, pp. 25, 26). 



PACIFIC EIDER. Somateria v-nigrum (Linnaeus) . 



An adult male Pacific Eider was shot at Graemsay, 

 Orkney, in the early morning of December 14th, 1904, by a 

 wild-fowler, named George Sutherland. It was seen in the 

 flesh by Mr. Charles Oldham, and, when mounted, was 

 exhibited by Dr. Bowdler Sharpe (on behalf of Mr. Frederick 

 Stubbs who received it in the flesh from a Scarborough 

 dealer on December 17th, 1904), at a meeting of the British 

 Ornithologists' Club, held January 18th, 1905. This species 

 had not been previously detected in European waters (Bull. 

 B.O.C., vol. xv, p. 32 ; Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1905, pp. 183, 

 184; 'Zoologist,' 1905, pp. 74, 142, 143, 185; 'Field,' 

 February 4th, 1905, p. 190, and ibid., February 18th, 1905, 

 p. 277). 



