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RED-CRESTED POCHARD. Netta rufina (Pallas). 



An adult pair of this species were shot on Thorpe Mere, 

 Aldeburgh, Suffolk, on January 16th, 1904, by Mr. Frank G. 

 Garrett, Junr. The birds were exhibited by Mr. F. M. 

 Ogilvie at a meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club, 

 held March 16th, 1904 (Bull. B.O.C., vol. xiv, p. 62; 

 J. H. Gurney, ' Zoologist,' 1905, p. 90). 



POCHARD. Fuligula ferina (Linnaeus). 



In addition to the counties mentioned in the text, this 

 bird, according to Sir Herbert Maxwell, breeds in consider- 

 able numbers in Mochrum, Wigtownshire (Ann. Scot. Nat. 

 Hist., 1901, p. 117). 



TUFTED DUCK. Fuligula cristata (Leach). 



In the ' Irish Naturalist,' 1905, p. 165, Mr. Warren men- 

 tions that the Tufted Duck has extended its breeding-range 

 to Lough Conn, co. Mayo, where, in June, 1905, Mr. S. 

 Scroope found a nest containing eleven eggs and saw several 

 adult pairs. 



EIDER DUCK. Somateria mollissima (Linnaeus). 



At a meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club, held 

 April 12th, 1905, Mr. H. Saunders exhibited a male Eider 

 Duck with a faintly indicated black V-shaped mark on the 

 throat, characteristic of S. v-nigrum. The specimen was 

 obtained at Holy Island, in January, 1898, by Mr. Abel 

 Chapman (Bull. B.O.C., vol. xv, pp. 69, 70). Al a subse- 

 quent meeting, held January 17th, 1906, Mr. Saunders 

 exhibited another male specimen of the same Duck, 

 showing a well-defined but not very black V-shaped mark 

 on the throat. This bird was shot near Stromness, Orkney, 

 on December 7th, 1905, and was sent by Mr. H. W. 

 Eobinson, of Lansdowne House, Lancaster (Bull. B.O.C., 

 vol. xvi, p. 44). 



KING-EIDER. Somateria spectabilis (Linnaeus). 



A male King-Eider was shot in Foreland Bay, off 

 Donaghadee, co. Down, on November 10th, 1897, by Mr. 

 W. H. Shaw (K. Patterson, 'Irish Naturalist,' 1901, p. 50) ; 

 another, an adult female, was shot off Graemsay, Orkuey, 

 on February 21st, 1906, by Mr. S. Sutherland (H. W. 

 Robinson, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1906, pp. 116, 117). 

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