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8. Golden-eye Duck. 
y. Mallard. “They have a very quick scent, in so 
much that they smell out a man, though they do 
not see him, if they bave but the wind from him ”’ 
(MS.). 
10. Pintail. 
11. Pochard. 
12. Gadwall. Baldner’s description of the Brog Vogel 
does not fit this species. 
13. Wigeon. 
14. Shoveller. 
15. Great Crested Grebe. “‘ This Fowl I shot, and some 
more I got, which were taken in a net. There are 
but few of them ” (MS.). 
16. Ferruginous Duck. 
17. Tufted Duck. 
18. Garganey Teal. 
19. Smew. 
20. Little Grebe. ‘Come to us about St. Michael 
Feast, and tarry till Easter’ (MS.). 
21. Teal. 
22. Osprey. “ June 15th, 1654, I got an Osprey . 
I found a stone of carp in his throat ” (MS.). 
23. Great White Egret. The description applies to the 
Common Heron. 
24. Heron. 
25. Purple Heron. Bittern. A part of Baldner’s descrip- 
tion applies to the Bittern, and a part to the Purple 
Heron, while it is evidently the latter in immature 
plumage that is represented in his drawing. “‘ One 
may hear their cry,” he says, “half a mile off, 
which they lift up on high through their long nostrils, 
and the bill, and this the female does more than the 
male, as much as I know of them.* They abide 
with us a twelve month, and hatch two or three 
young ones.” One which Baldner dissected con- 
tained an entire mole. 
* This is disputed, some naturalists even doubting if the female booms 
at all. Miss Turner’s experience is that it sometimes utters a soft booming 
sound (‘British Birds,’ Mag., XIIT., p. 8). 
