THE GARGANEY. 91 



The Bimaculated Duck, or Teal (Jnas bimaculcda, Penn. ; 

 Anas gloc'Uuus, Gmel.), unknown in Ireland, has on three occasions, 

 from 1771 to the present period, been procured in England, on one of 

 which, two individuals were captured in a decoy at the same time. In 

 the third instance, the bird was merely purchased in the Loudon mar- 

 ket, and no information given where it was killed. The bimaculated 

 duck has not been obtained on the mainland of Scotland, but is believed 

 to have "been twice observed in Orkney."* It inhabits Northern 

 Asia, but is very little known to ornithologists. 



THE GARGANEY. 

 Summer Teal. 



Anas querquedula, Linn, 

 ,, circia, „ 



Is of very rare occurrence in Ireland. 



I HAVE, myself, seen but one specimen of this very handsomely 

 marked duck properly authenticated as killed in this island ; it 

 is an adult male, which was shot about the month of April 1841, 

 at Edenderry, King^s-county, and is in the collection of Dr. 0. 

 Earran, of Dublin. Mr. Glennon, bird-preserver, of this city, 

 told me in May 1838, of a fresh specimen having been sent to 

 him in the winter of 1835-36, by Sir Eichard Levinge, Bart., at 

 whose seat, in Westmeath, it was said to have been shot. An 

 adult male bird, which J saw in Glennon^s in August 1843, was 

 stated to have been received in a fresh state, but where obtained 

 was unknown. Mr. E. Ball has observed a very few fresh speci- 

 mens (which it may be fairly presumed were killed in Ireland) on 

 sale in Dublin, but is not aware where they were procui'ed. Dr. 

 Harvey, of Cork, has seen one individual (an adult male) which 

 was killed in that county. On the first three days of March 

 1847, Eichard Elack, a wild-fowl shooter, to whom the garganey 

 is well known, saw one of these birds, and, as was presumed, the 

 same iiulividual each day, on Strangford Lough. It admitted 

 ''■ ' Hist. Nat. Oread.; p. 76 (1848). 



