DUCKS. 159 



AMEEICAN WI&EON. Anas americana, Gmelin. 

 Hab. North America. 



One, Leadenhall Market, winter 1837-38 : Blyth, Naturalist, 



vol. iii. p. 417 ; Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. iii. p. 293 ; 



Gumey, Zoologist, 1864, p. 9024. 

 One, Burn of Boyndie, Banffshire, Jan. 1841 : Edward, 



Zoologist, 1860, p. 6970. 

 One, Strangford Lough, Feb. 1844 : Thompson, Nat. Hist. 



Irel. (Birds), vol. iii. p. 112. 

 Others, Belfast Bay : Thompson, op. cit. 

 One, Essex coast, Jan. 1864: Carter, Zoologist, 1864, 



p. 8962. 

 One on the Taw, near Barnstaple, 20th April 1870 : Mathew, 



Zoologist, 1870, p. 2182. 



EED-CEESTED DTJCK. Fuligula rufina (Pallas). 

 Hab. South-eastern Europe, North Africa, and Asia. 



One, Breydon Harbour, Norfolk, July 1818 : Hunt, Brit. 



Orn. vol. ii. p. 333, fig. 

 Two, same harbotu-, winter 1826 : Hunt, in Stacey's Norfolk, 



vol. i. p. Ixiii. 

 One, Boston, Lincolnshire, Jan. 1826 : Yarrell, Zool. Journ. 



vol. ii. p. 492. 

 Several in Leadenhall Market, the same winter : Bartlett, 



Naturalist, vol. iii. p. 420. 

 One, Surlingham, Dec. 1827 : Hunt, I. c. 

 One, Horsea Mere, Norfolk, 12th Jan. 1844 : Gumey, Zoo- 

 logist, 1844, p. 576. 

 One, Swanpool, Cornwall, Feb. 1845 : BuUmore, Cornish 



Fauna, p. 37. 

 One out of eighteen, on the Thames, near Erith : Yarrell, 



Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. iii. p. 330. 

 One, Milford Haven : G. R. Gray, Cat. Brit. Birds in Brit. 



Mus. p. 198. In the British Museum. 



