DUCKS. 161 



One near Coleshilly Warwickshire, 7th April, 1857 : Foggit, 

 Naturalist, 1857, p. 163. Proved to be a female Scaup : 

 Buckley, Naturalist, 1858, p. 124 ; A. Newton, I. c. 



One, Aberdeenshire, 1858 : R. Gray, op. cii. p. 394. 



BUFFEL-HEADED DUCK. Clangula olbeola (Linnaeus). 

 Hab. North America. 



One near Yarmouth, winter 1830 : Paget, Sketch Nat. Hist. 

 Yarmouth, p. 11; Lubbock, Fauna of Norfolk, p. 119; 

 Degland and Gerbe, Om. Europ. ii. p. 547. Formerly in 

 the collection of the late Mr. Miller, now in the collection 

 of Mr. Rising of Horsey, near Yarmouth. 



One in the Margate Museum, said to have been obtained in 

 Orkney in the autumn of 1841 (YarreU, Hist. Brit. Birds, 

 vol. iii. p. 379), but the statement since found to be a 

 mistake. The Curator of the Museum bought the skin 

 of R. DunU) whose son informed Mr. J. H. Gumey, Jun., 

 in a letter, that it had not been obtained in Great Britain 

 or even in Europe. 



One, West Mud, near Devonport, winter 1841 : in the collec- 

 tion of Rev. W. Hore, of Barnstaple. When paying a visit 

 to Mr. Hore in September 1870, I had an opportunity of 

 seeing this bird and learning from the owner the above- 

 mentioned particulars. 



One, Bessingly Beck, near Bridlington, winter 1864-65 : 

 Cordeaux, Zoologist, 1865, p. 9659. The precise locality, 

 not mentioned in the Zoologist, I. c, was subsequently 

 communicated in a letter by Mr. Cordeaux. 



One, in British Museum, labelled " Norfolk " (Gray, Cat. 

 Brit. Birds in Brit. Mus. p. 226), the authenticity of which 

 is very doubtful. 



One, Loch of Loriston, Aberdeenshire, January 1865 : R. 

 Gray, Birds of West of Scotland, p. 896. In the pos- 

 session of Mr. Angus of Aberdeen. 



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