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marked in the old MS. catalogue as ‘‘ shot on Groby Pool, 
April, 1844. Part of a flock of twenty.” Probably those referred 
to by Harley. Mr. Widdowson told me that four came to 
Stapleford Ponds about 1876, two of which were shot. Messrs. 
Lever and Moss have recorded in ‘ The Zoologist,’ 1885 (p. 259), 
the nesting of this bird on a pond at Garendon. Being at 
Belvoir in 1884, I saw a skein of Geese flying high overhead, 
going eastward, and called Mr. Ingram’s attention to this, who 
replied, ‘‘Only our Canada Geese going to feed on the marshes.” 
In September, 1885, five were shot out of a small flock near 
Melton. 
Cygnus olor (Gmelin). Mute Swan.—Breeds at Abbey Park, 
Leicester, Thornton Reservoir, and other places in the county. 
Cygnus musicus, Bechstein. Wild Swan (‘‘ Whooper’’).—An 
uncommon winter visitant. Potter, in his ‘ History of Charn- 
wood Forest,’ says :—‘‘ Seen at Bardon formerly; in the neigh- 
bourhood of the Forest rarely shot. One killed near Wanlip 
Hall was in Mr. Gisborne’s collection at Yoxall Lodge; and 
another was killed at Groby.” Harley says, ‘‘ It has occurred 
on the Soar at Loughborough, andalso at Groby Pool, as I learn 
from Mr. Chaplin.” Mr. Chaplin died October 20th, 1855. 
Tadorna cornuta (8S. G. Gmelin). Common Sheldrake 
(‘“‘ Burrow Duck”’).—‘‘ Three were shot at Barkby, February, 
1881 (Mid. Nat., 1882, p. 78), one of which, a male, I saw in the 
possession of a bird-stuffer named Donnell.” 
Mareca penelope (Linn.). Wigeon.—A winter visitant. Not 
uncommon on the rivers Soar and Trent, as well as on such 
large sheets of water as Saddington and Knipton Reservoirs. 
Dafila acuta (Linn.). Pintail.—-A winter visitant, but not 
common. Examples have been shot at Groby Pool, and at Kilby 
Bridge, as well as in the Abbey Meadow. 
Anas boseas, Linn. Wild Duck (‘‘ Mallard ’”’).— Generally 
distributed and breeding. Harley found a nest in the crown of 
a willow pollard several feet from the ground. Mr. W. Groves 
asserts that he sawa duck sitting on a clutch of eleven eggs 
deposited in an oak tree at a height of ten feet from the ground 
in Bradgate Park, in 1881. The Wild Duck is seldom absent 
from the Belvoir Lake, or Reservoir, where it breeds regularly, as 
it does also at Rolleston and Saddington. 
Querquedula circia (Linn.). Garganey (“‘ Summer Teal”). 
