202 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Cosmonetta histrionica (Linn.). Harlequin Duck.—Of this rare 
Duck, Harley writes, ‘‘The Harlequin Duck appeared in the 
county during the heavy frost of 1845, when several examples 
were captured on the pools and waters in different parts of 
Leicestershire. Mr. Chaplin, of Groby, shot a pair on the pool 
in the early part of 1845, where they were associated with 
Scoters, Tufted Ducks, Teal, and Wigeon.” 
(Edemia nigra (Linn.). Common Scoter (‘‘Black Duck’’).— 
Not unfrequently driven in by the easterly gales, and appearing 
upon our reservoirs as at Saddington, where a flock of twenty 
appeared on September 8rd, 1881. During August and Sep- 
tember, 1881, three were killed there, one of which (a male), 
shot on September 3rd, was presented to the Leicester Museum. 
Others have been procured at Melton and Bosworth Park. Mr. 
J. Whitaker, of Mansfield, Notts, obligingly writes me that he 
possesses two adult males shot out of a flock at Thornton 
Reservoir, September 18th, 1879, by Dr. John Wright, of Mark- 
field (see ‘ Zoologist,’ 1879, p. 459). 
Mergus merganser (Linn.). Goosander.—A rare winter visitant. 
Potter, in his ‘ History of Charnwood Forest,’ notices one shot 
near Langley Priory ; and another, killed on the Smeeton Canal 
in 1862, is recorded in the ‘ Midland Naturalist,’ 1882 (p. 79). 
There is in the Leicester Museum a fine male in adult plumage, 
shot near Blaby, December 17th, 1875, and presented by Mr. 
William Gregory. 
Mergus serrator, Linn. Red-breasted Merganser (‘ Sawbill’’). 
—A rare winter visitant. One shot on the pool at Coleorton Hall 
about 1860 is recorded in the ‘ Midland Naturalist,’ 1882, p. 79. 
It is preserved in the collection of Sir G. Beaumont. 
Mergus albellus, Linn. Smew.—A rare winter visitant. 
During the severe weather of February and March, 1845, this 
species was frequently met with in company with Scoters, 
Pochards, and Wigeon, on Groby Pool, and on the Trent. Mr. 
J. Whitaker, of Rainworth Lodge, Mansfield, has an adult male, 
shot at Thornton Reservoir in 1877 (see ‘ Zoologist,’ 1884, p. 52). 
Mr. Woodcock, of Rearsby, shot a fine Smew in the River Hye, 
in the parish of Wyfordby ; and shortly afterwards Mr. North, of 
Syston, shot another. 
(To be continued.) 
