ANATIDE. 441 
THE RED-CRESTED POCHARD. 
NettTa RUF{NA (Pallas). 
The Red-crested Pochard is a southern and eastern species which 
was first noticed as a wanderer to the British Islands by J. Hunt, who 
figured a female killed in Norfolk in July 1818; and eight or nine 
examples have since been obtained in that county, chiefly in winter. 
Others have been taken along the east coast between Berwick-on- 
Tweed and the mouth of the Thames; Devon and Cornwall have 
each contributed one ; there is a specimen in the British Museum 
from Pembrokeshire ; and a male was shot on October 9th 1897 in 
Westmoreland. In Scotland one was obtained in Argyllshire in 
January 1862; in Ireland one in co. Kerry on January 18th 1881. 
This Pochard seldom occurs on the waters of Denmark, Northern 
Germany, Holland or Belgium, while in Switzerland it is chiefly 
found on the lakes of the eastern cantons; but though rare in the 
north of France, it is not uncommon in the Rhone delta, where 
Messrs. W. E. Clarke and T. Laidlaw found it breeding. In the 
Spanish Peninsula it is almost confined to the lakes on the east side 
and those in the Balearic Islands. In the southern half of Italy it 
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