RARER BRITISH BIRDS. 



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RED-CRESTED POCHARD. 



Mergoides Rufina. LINN^US. 



A NOTICE by Mr. Yarrell appears in the second volume 

 of the Zoological Journal, of a bird of this species, which 

 proved to be a young male, being shot near Boston, Lincolnshire, 

 in the month of January, 1826 ; it was in company with a 

 flight of Widgeons. A female specimen, also, Mr. Gould 

 informs us, in his European Birds, is in the possession of the 

 Hon. W. T. T. Fiennes, killed out of a flight of eighteen, on 

 the Thames, at Erith, Kent. 



Nothing appears to be known of its nidification. Temminck 



