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American Swan. Cygnus americanus. ] Botli these Swans have been 



Trumpeter Swan. Cygnus buccinator. ] recorded as having occurred in a 

 wild state in Great Britain ; the evidence, however, is doubtful and anything but 

 conclusive, and I have thought it better to omit any notice of them in these 

 chapters. 



Those who are interested in the subject will find full particulars of the supposed 

 occurrences in " Yarrell's British Birds," Vol. IV., Ed. IV., p. 322. 



Pink-Footed Goose. Anser brachyrhy?ichus. — The arrival of these Geese in 

 this season, (1897), in Lincolnshire, has been the earliest on record. On September 

 1 8th, a skein of seventy, flying from the coast towards the wolds, passed over 

 Brackenborough Hall, near Louth. In Yorkshire, Mr. F. Boyes, of Beverley, 

 records in the " Field," October 2nd, p. 537, that a small gaggle appeared on the 

 wolds on the 9th of September. The Rev. Murray A. Mathew says, (^in litt.J, 

 that the Pink-footed Goose is almost unknown in the south-west of the British 

 Isles, and that the White-fronted Goose is the common species. 



Red-Crested Pochard. Fuligula rufina. — A male Red-crested Pochard was 

 shot on the 9th of October, 1897, on Littlewater tarn, near Haweswater, in 

 Westmoreland. It was taken to Mr. L. E. Hope, of Penrith, and examined in 

 the flesh by the Rev. H. A. Macpherson, who purchased it and presented it to the 

 Carlisle Museum. 



White-Eyed Duck. Fuligula nyroca. — For a most interesting account of the 

 nesting of this Duck in Slavonia, see Mr. W. Eagle Clarke's Field-notes, ("Ibis," 

 1884, pp. 136-147). 



END OF VOLUME FOUR. 



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