
GARGANEY IN ANGLESEY. 
On August 2nd, 1917, I shot a Garganey (Anas querquedula) 
in a bog near Valley, Anglesey. It was a male in eclipse 
plumage, and was identified at the British Museum. The 
skin is now at the Grosvenor Museum, Chester. It is, I 
believe, a rare bird in the west of England, and I thought 
I ought to record its occurrence. J. A. POWNALL. 
[In his Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales, Mr. H. EK. Forrest 
gives four instances of the occurrence of the Garganey in 
Anglesey, and considers it a rare visitor to North Wales. We 
believe that it has not been recorded from Anglesey since 
1905.—Eps. | 
SHAGS IN CHESHIRE AND LANCASHIRE. 
At least three immature Shags (Phalacrocorax g. graculus) 
were captured or observed in Cheshire and Lancashire during 
September, 1917. The first bird was caught on September 8th 
by Mr. J. 8. Schofield, in a stretch of the Manchester and 
Huddersfield Canal which passes through Cheshire at Mossley. 
It was kept alive by the Mossley Natural History Society, 
and at first described as a Cormorant, but my friend Mr. Fred 
Taylor, of Oldham, went to see it on my behalf, and 
identified it. 
The second, I learn from Mr. J. W. Cutmore, was caught 
in the Gladstone Dock at Liverpool, and taken alive to the 
Free Public Museum. 
The third I saw myself at Rostherne Mere, Cheshire, 
eleven miles south of Manchester. On September 29th, 
when | first noticed the bird, it was at some distance from 
the shore, swimming very low in the water, with its neck 
gracefully curved, and its bill held at an angle of about 
50 degrees with the water-level. I failed, however, to get 
it in a satisfactory light, or indeed to get near enough to 
see any detail of plumage. On the 30th, however, I found 
it standing on a mooring-stake close to the border of the 
mere, and under cover of the trees and bushes got to within 
ten yards, with a bright sun well behind me. It was, I 
should say, a bird in the second autumn, but I have failed 
to find any full account of the changes of plumage in the 
species. The best, and the only one which indicates when the 
bird is really adult, appears to be that in Mr. Ogilvie-Grant’s 
British Museum Catalogue, 1898. 

