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THE GARGANEY. 
QUERQUEDULA cfRc1a (Linnzus). 
This very local species visits England early in March, and, if un- 
molested, remains ina few suitable spots to breed (whence it is often 
called the Summer-Teal) ; while it is again observed on the migra- 
tion southward in autumn. It nests regularly in the ‘ broad’ district 
and other parts of Norfolk—where, owing to protection, it is on the 
increase, also sparingly in Suffolk, probably in Warwickshire, Hants, 
and some other counties; visits Lincolnshire in April; has been 
found nesting in Holderness, Yorkshire; and used to breed in 
Northumberland before the drainage of Prestwick Car. Elsewhere 
its occurrences are irregular, and in Wales and the west they are 
decidedly infrequent. The same may be said of the mainland of 
Scotland, and its visits to the Orkneys and Shetlands, as well as to 
Barra in the Outer Hebrides, are exceptional. In Ireland, Mr. 
Ussher informs me that he has records of twenty-six occurrences 
between January and August, but chiefly during March and in the 
south and west. 
The Garganey seldom visits the Fzeroes or even the south of Nor- 
way, but it breeds rather plentifully in Denmark, Sweden up to about 
lat. 60°, Finland, and Russia as far as Archangel; while it is very abund- 
ant in East Prussia, and generally distributed in summer through- 
out the rest of Europe, especially in the east, down to the Caspian, 
Black and Mediterranean Seas, though of irregular occurrence in 
