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Lough Swilly. Formerly frequented Horn Head, and probably 

 breeds at several other localities. These birds remain throughout 

 the year in the places they frequent. " Breeds in the sand-hills 

 between Ballyshanon and Bundoran" (A. B.). 



*Wild Duck, Anas boscas, Linn. — Breeds in many places, the 

 numbers in the county increasing much in winter. 



Wigeon, A. penelope, Linn. — An abundant winter visitant, 

 but has not as yet, I believe, been observed to breed in Donegal, 

 though it most probably does so. 



*Teal, Querquedula crecca, Linn. — Breeds in most of the 

 mountain lakes, more numerously perhaps than even the Wild 

 Duck. Great numbers arrive in autumn for the winter. 



Pochard, Fuligula ferina, Linn. — A winter visitant in small 

 numbers to Mulroy and Sheephaven Bays, also Lough Swilly. Sir 

 R. Payne Gallwey (' Fowler in Ireland,' p. 47) gives the proportion 

 of Wigeon, Teal, Duck, Pochard, Scaup and Divers that Capt. 

 Dover killed with his punt-gun in the years 1861, '62, and '63, in 

 Mulroy and Sheephaven. I saw a few on Nov. 9th, near the 

 lighthouse in Fanet. 



Scaup, Fuligula marila> Linn. — Winter visitor in . some 

 quantity. They are to be seen annually about the upper reaches 

 of Lough Swilly, about Inch, and at Mulroy and Sheephaven. 

 One was shot at Glenalla river, near Ray, on Lough Swilly, on 

 July 1st, 1882: probably a wounded bird. 



Tufted Duck, F. cristata, Leach. — The " White-sided Duck," 

 as it is here called, is a regular winter visitant in small numbers 

 to some of the lakes in Fanet. A local fowler, Patrick Campbell, 

 has obtained these birds several times. 



Common Scoter, (Edemia nigra, Linn. — Not a regular winter 

 visitant to Lough Swilly. Very numerous in the winter of 1880-81. 

 I have seen Scoters off the north coast of Fanet several winters 

 in small numbers. 



Velvet Scoter, CE.fusca, Linn. — In January, 1890, three 

 of these birds remained with a small company (about thirty) of 

 Pochards in Lough Swilly for several days. They were usually a 

 quarter of a mile from shore, and I often watched them with a 

 telescope. There was a very heavy swell in the Lough at the 

 time and a desperate sea outside. The white mark on the wing 

 was unmistakably observed. 



*Red-breasted Merganser, Mergus serrator, Linn. — Breeds 



