BRITISH SPECIES UNKNOWN AS IRISH. 



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III the order Natatores, the following birds are enumerated at 

 the present time in the British^ and not in the Irish, catalogue. 

 A few of the leading points respecting them have been already 

 given in connexion with the species to which they are most nearly 

 allied, so that little more is now to be done than to bring them 

 together here. 



BRITISH AND NON-IRISH SPECIES. 



Polish Swan 



Pink-footed Goose . . . 

 Spur-winged Goose . 

 Bimaculated Duck . 

 Steller's Western Duck 

 Red-crested Whistling Duck 

 Perruginous or Nyroca Duck 

 American Scaup Duck 

 Harlequin Duck . 

 Buffel- headed Duck 

 Caspian Tern 

 GuU-billed Tern 

 Ross's GuU . . 

 Laughing Gull . 

 Bulwer's Petrel . 



Wilson's Petrel 



Of these sixteen specie 

 Great Britain ; viz., — spur 



Cygnus immutahilis, Yarr. 

 Ariser bracki/rhpicus, Baill. 



„ gamhensis, Linn, (sp.) 

 Anas himaculata, Penn. 

 Polysticia^ Stelleri, Pall, (sp.) 

 Fuligida rufina, Pall, (sp.) 

 Fid. leucoplitlialmos, Bechst. (sp.) 

 Fid. mariloides, Vigors. 

 Clangula Idstrionica, Linn, (sp.) 



„ alheola, Porst. (sp.) 



Sterna caspia, Pall. 



„ angllca, Mont. 

 Lams Rossii, Rich. 



„ atricilla, Linn. 

 Thalassldroma Btdweri, Jard. and 

 Selby (sp.). 



Thalassldroma Wdsoni, Bonap. 



, three have been but once obtained in 

 -winged goose, a bird of northern and 

 western Afi;ica ; — North American scaup, whose name marks its 

 country (it is not known where the individual included in 

 the British list was killed ; being purchased fresh in London 

 market affords no evidence of its having been procured in the 

 British seas or inland waters) ;t — Ross's gull, a species of Arctic 

 America. J 



* Eyton. 



t If the Fuiif/ula fer'uioides, Bartl, since obtained, be considered (became, we 

 have positive evidence of its being killed iu England. 

 + Noticed at p. 314. 



