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Bedfordshire. — Recorded as breeding (Vict. Hist. Beds., 

 Vol. I., p. 125). 



Staffordshire. — Recorded definitely as breeding at 

 Gailey Pools in 1890 {Rep. N. Staffs. F. Club, 1905-6, p. 49). 



Hants. — Is said by Hart to have nested in the New Forest 

 district since 1880, but has not been found nesting elsewhere 

 in the county (J. E. Kelsall and P. W. Munn, B. of Hants., 

 p. 238). 



Scottish Borders. — Twenty to thirty pairs nesting on 

 Hoselaw Loch in 1906. Whitrigg Bog, near St. Boswells, 

 Roxburgh and Hule Moss, on Greenlaw^ Moor, Berwickshire, 

 are now the only other localities on the borders where the 

 Pochard nests (A. Chapman, Bird-Life Borders, p. 90). 



Outer Hebrides. — Now far from uncommon (J. A. Harvie- 

 Brown, Ann. 8.N.H., 1902, p. 211). 



FERRUGINOUS DUCK Fuligula nyroca (Giild.). 

 S. page 445. 



Yorkshire. — In the spring of 1903 four birds frequented 

 a sheet of water near Ack worth, and two, an adult male and 

 a female, were shot. The others, which were a pair, remained 

 there till the end of the year (W. B. Arundel, Zool., 1904, 

 p. 33). 



Norfolk. — In April, 1903, twenty birds in two flocks, 

 frequented RoUesby and Hickling Broads. One flock 

 was composed entirely of adult males (J. H. Gurney, t.c, 

 1904, p. 207). An immature bird was shot on January 1st, 

 1906, on the Broads (M. C. H. Bird, t.c, 1906, p. 75). Four 

 were seen on the Broads on April 10th, 1906, the day follow- 

 ing a N.E. gale (J. H. Gurney, t.c, 1907, p. 126). A flock of 

 five was " reported " on Hickling on December 27th, 1907 

 {id., t.c, 1908, p. 135). 



Suffolk. — One was shot at Culford on January 23rd, 

 1906, after a N.E, gale, and a second a few days later {id., 

 t.c, 1907, p. 123). 



Surrey. — One in the Charterhouse collection is stated to 

 have been shot at Bramley (J. A. Bucknill, B. of Surrey, 

 p. 239). 



Cornwall. — An immature male was killed on the beach 

 near My lor, on March 11th, 1905, during very stormy weather. 

 The first record for the county. (J. Clark, Zool, 1907, p. 285.) 



Montgomery. — One was shot out of a party of seven at 

 Machynlleth by Mr. Percy Lewis, on April 2nd, 1906 (H. E. 

 Forrest, Vert. Fauna N. Wales, p. 286). 



{To he continued.) 



