xX PREFACE. 
The specimen is in the same plumage as those described 
by Mr. Yarrell; the markings on the under side of the 
wings are very beautiful. The specimen noticed is the 
only Irish one I am aware of.” 
Steter’s Wesrern Duck. Somateria dispar; vol. ui. 
page 305. 
George N. Cozens, Esq., of Weston Lodge, near Derby, 
sent me word that on the 15th of August 1835, he shot 
a Duck of this species while it was sitting on the sea just 
off the rocks of the promontory called Filey Bridge, six or 
-seven miles south of Scarborough. The bird was alone. 
Mr. Cozens very obligingly sent the skin for my examina- 
tion. It proved to be that of a male, but, like some other 
males in this family, exhibited the plumage of the fe- 
male over the head and neck; but the autumn moult 
having commenced, the white feathers about the head, 
and the black feathers on the chin and on the bottom of 
the neck behind, which distinguish the adult male, were 
just beginning to make their appearance, forming an in- 
teresting state of change. 
The Masxen Gutu. Larus capistratus; vol. ii. page 
BAT. 
Of this bird, M. H. Schlegel, in his Critical Review of 
the Birds of Europe, published at Leyden in 1844, has the 
following remarks at page 113, under the name of Larus 
ridibundus minor : 
“This Gull is only distinguished from the Laughing 
