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ON THE MORE IMPORTANT ADDITIONS TO OUR 

 KNOWLEDGE OF BRITISH BIRDS SINCE 1899. 



BY 



H. F. WITHERBY and N. F. TICEHURST. 

 Part XII. 



{Continued from page 57.) 



TUFTED DUCK Fuligula cristata (Leach). S. page 447. 



Sussex. — Recorded as breeding in the county (J. G. Millais, 

 Vict. Hist. Sussex, Vol. I.). 



Hampshire. — First known to nest in the county in 1890, 

 since then its breeding range has rapidly increased, and six 

 or seven localities are enumerated where nests have been 

 found (J. E. Kelsall and P. W. Munn, B. of Hants, p. 233 

 et seq.). 



Somerset. — Nested at Blagdon Reservoir in 1906 (F. L. 

 Blathwayt, Zool, 1908, p. 114). 



Bucks. — Breeds at Weston Turville (Rothschild and 

 Hartert, Vict. Hist. Bucks., p. 146). 



Derby. — They first began to resort regularly for breeding 

 to Osmaston Manor lake in S.W. Derbyshire, in 1886. Since 

 then a brood or two have been reared almost every year, and 

 at least two hatched off in 1899. [Now there are seldom fewer 

 than seven or eight pairs to be found there in the breeding 

 season (F. C. R. J., in litt., 1908).] From Osmaston they have 

 spread to neighbouring ponds, where they have bred regularly 

 since about 1888. They were observed on the Ashbourne 

 Hall pond in 1892, and a pair bred at Sturston Mill in 

 1895 (F. C. R. Jourdain, Zool., 1899, p. 476). They have 

 also established themselves at Bradley, further to the east 

 {id., t.c, 1900, p. 429), and, still more recently, at Norbury 

 in 1907 {id., Derby. N.H.S. Journ., 1908). 



Staffordshire. — Besides the Weston Park colony referred 

 to below, this species first bred at Calwich Abbey in 1906 

 (F. C. R. Jourdain, in litt.). 



Shropshire. — Has bred regularly at Weston Park, on the 

 borders of Shropshire and Staffordshire since 1880. Its 

 numbers have steadily increased, and in 1890 there were 



