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*A. penelope.— Oftentimes met with on the Kennet. 
A. ferina.—About Jan. 1792, many shot about Reading; since 
that time rare, but in severe winters. 
A. querquedula.—In the severe Jan. 1795, one specimen shot 
at Maidenhead. 
A. crecca.—Yearly winter visitants in the marshes about 
Newbury. 
A. boschas.—Breeds in abundance in the waters belonging to 
the Earl of Craven at Hampstead Marshall, with the Coots and 
Moorhens. 
A. fuligula.—Shot, Reading, Feb. 1794, and at Newbury, 
Feb. 1809, but rare. 
Mergus merganser.—Many shot near Reading in the winter, 
1791; since that very rare. A solitary specimen shot at 
Thatcham, Dec. 1808; as food most unpleasantly fishy in taste. 
M. serrator.—A male and female shot near Reading in the 
winter, 1795, and both equally fishy to the above. 
M. albellus—A male shot near Newbury, Jan. 31, 1814 [?]. 
It had a reflection of the trachea previous to the divarication. 
Alea arctica.— Caught in Northbrook Street, Newbury, 
March 16, 1810; kept alive fifteen days on small fish. The 
edges of the bill were so particularly sharp as to cut the finger of 
the boy who caught it like a knife. 
Alea alle.—In the early part of Nov. 1807, the male of this 
rare bird was shot in the mill-stream in the middle of Newbury; 
it had been seen swimming opposite the houses the most part of 
the day, diving frequently and visibly bringing up minnows (lke 
a Dabchick), but so tame that the boys habitually were assailing 
him with stones. Its stomach, which was membranous, con- 
tained five minnows. I remarked that from this bird leaving 
Greenland we should have an early and severe winter, which 
proved correct. 
*Pelicanus carbo.—Shot in Fulsham Pound, near Newbury, 
Noy. 1803. 
P. graculus.—Shot near Pangbourn, Sept. 1794. 
Colymbus glacialis— Three specimens met with; one at Pang- 
bourn and one at Maidenhead, Jan. 1794, and one near Newbury, 
Jan. 1810. 
C. immer.t— One shot at Maidenhead, Jan. 1794. 
+ The young of the last named.—Ep. 
