442 Mr. A. G. More on the Distribution of Birds 



Tadorna vulpanser (Linn.). Shell-drake. 



Provinces I.-IV. VI.-XVIII. 



Subprovinces 2, 3, (4), (7), (10), ii, 17-19, 21, 22, 24-26,28, 



30-38. 

 Lat. 50° or 51°-61°. " British " (or " Scottish ") type. 



Scarce in the south of England, and reported as extinct in 

 Dorset, Kent, and Suffolk ; but still breeds in North Devon, 

 Somerset, and Norfolk, in the last of which counties it is de- 

 scribed as decreasing. 



Spatula clypeata {Boie). Shoveller. 



Provinces II.-V. X. XL XIV.-XVI. 



Subpro\dnces 4, (7), 11, 15, 22, 24, 28, 31, 32. 



Lat. 50°-58°. " British " (or " English ") type. Not in Ireland. 



In the 'Zoologist' (p. 5757) Mr. W. Thompson mentions a 

 nest found in Dorset. Yarrell tells us that the Shoveller for- 

 merly bred in Romney Marsh. It still breeds occasionally in 

 Norfolk, and Mr. F. Bond has found the nest in Staffordshire. 

 Mr. Hewitson mentions Hornsea Mere as a breeding-locality. 

 The Rev. H. B. Tristram tells me that the Shoveller breeds oc- 

 casionally in Durham ; and Mr. Hancock marks it as breeding 

 regularly in Northumberland. 



In Scotland the nest has been found once on Guillon Links, 

 Haddingtonshire {Sir W. Jardine) ; on the banks of Loch 

 Spynie, in Elgin {Mr. St. John) ; and in the ' Zoologist ' (p. 3503) 

 Sir G. H. Leith records that he has shot the female and found 

 the nest in Dumbartonshire. 



Chaulelasmus streperus (G. R. Gray). Gadwall. 



Province IV. 



Sub province 11. 



Lat. 52°-53°. "Germanic" type. Not in Ireland. 



The nest has been found only in Norfolk, where Mr. A. New- 

 ton tells me that this duck breeds regularly, at Narford ; but it 

 is possible that the stock was originally the produce of semi- 

 domesticated birds. 



