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Gludy Lake, and a very few frequent the Usk and Wye in severe 

 weather. I have never seen it on any of the mountain bogs, and, 

 I need hardly add, it never breeds with us. 



Teal, Querquedula crecca. — Fairly plentiful with us, and 

 breeding sparsely in several places in the county. I have found 

 its young in a very small and deep pond called by us the " Teal 

 Pond" on the Eppynt Hill, near Merthyr Cynog. They seem to 

 have taken a great liking for this small pool, and I invariably 

 found a flock there in the winter, and a pair nested there regularly. 

 They breed in a large bog near Cray, on the Trath bog near 

 Brecon, and on the large bog at Onllwyn, besides other places. 

 I have little doubt that, if they had anything like quiet, they 

 would breed at Llangorse in some numbers. They are occa- 

 sionally plentiful there in the winter, but I do not think these 

 can be birds reared in the count}'. A few breed on othei parts 

 of the Eppynt Hills. 



I may here remark that I have seen two Garganey, Quer- 

 quedula circia, believed to have been killed on the Wye, near Hay, 

 but as there is some doubt about it I cannot with certainty include 

 the species in my list. 



Pochard, Fuligida ferina. — Occurs on Llangorse Lake in the 

 winter months ; it has also been killed on the Usk and Wye, 

 but is very uncommon on both these rivers. 



Scaup, Fidigula marila. — A very rare duck with us, but visits 

 us occasionally. Mr. Alfred Crawshay shot one on the Usk last 

 winter. Some years ago I killed a Scaup under rather singular 

 circumstances in Wiltshire. I kept some very small black East 

 Indian ducks on a pond quite in the country : the man who 

 looked after them told me that a strange duck was with them, 

 but was very wild. I was returning from snipe-shooting at the 

 time, and going to the pond the stranger immediately dived, 

 and I killed it on its reappearance with a charge of snipe-shot, 

 and found it was a female Scaup in perfect plumage. Doubt- 

 less it had mistaken the tame black ducks for a flock of its 

 own kind. 



Tufted Duck, Fuligida cristata. — Quite as rare as the 

 preceding, though occurring here at intervals. One was shot 

 on the Wye at Clyro, near Hay, and Mr. William s-Vaughan has 

 another in his collection that was killed in the county. Mr. David 

 Thomas has also a specimen procured on Llangorse Lake, where 



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