OF K^OKTHUMBEELAIfD AND DrKHAlT. 155 



autumn and "winter it appears ia large flocks on the sea coast, 

 when, no doubt, its numbers are greatly augmented by migrants 

 from the north, as is the case also with the Mallard. 



152, BRANTA, Bote. 



48. Red-oresxed Dvck. B. etjezn'a, {Pallas.) 



Fuligula rufina, Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 2, III., 327. 

 Branta ,, Gould, Birds of Great Britain, Part XI. 



A casual visitant. A female of this rare Duck was shot at 

 Fenham Mats, in JSTovember, 1857, and is now ia the collection 

 of Edmond Crawshay, Esq. This is the only specimen known 

 to me that has occurred in the district. 



153. FULIGULA, Stephens. 



49. Tufted Duck. F. ceistata, {Linn^us.) 



Anas fuligula, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, II., 339. 

 Fuligula cristata, Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 2, III., 351. 



This resident species is not uncommon in winter. It has bred 

 tliree times at Wallington. In 1858, Su* W. C. Trevelyan, 

 Bart., informed me that a small Duck had been seen with a 

 brood of eight or nine young that year, on a small pond, near the 

 house, at Wallington, but he was not able to determine the spe- 

 cies. In the following year, Sir W. C. Trevelyan wrote to in- 

 form me that the Duck had again appeared at Wallington. At 

 his invitation I visited the spot on the 24th of May, and by the 

 aid of a glass saw both parent birds ; and I distinctly made out 

 that they were Tufted Ducks, male and female. I remained a 

 day or two, but searched in vain for the nest. On the 21st of 

 June, Sir Walter wrote to me as follows : — ''I will, to-morrow, 

 send you by carrier an egg of the Tufted Duck, whose nest we 

 have at last found, with nine eggs in it ; it is amongst sedges 

 and willows, made of sedges and a slight lining of down." 



"The male disappeared about a fortnight ago, and left his 

 mate to bring up her family alone, as she did last year, when he 



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