144 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
NOTES FROM LAKELAND, CUMBERLAND AND 
WESTMORLAND, 1905. 
By T. C. ParKer. 
Te following notes are derived largely from the Tullie 
House (Carlisle) Museum’s Records, kept by Messrs. D. L. 
Thorpe and L. Hope, but whatever is placed in brackets thus [ ] 
has been collected from other sources. 
The records were published in a local newspaper early in 
1906, and may be of interest to readers of ‘The Zoologist,’ as, 
since the lamented death of the Rev. H. A. Macpherson in 1902, 
Lakeland has not had a regular correspondent to this Journal. 
“‘The mild and open spring of 1905 was no doubt greatly 
responsible for the early arrival of many of our summer visitants, 
and the slight frosts in January and February were probably 
partly responsible for the presence of numbers of wildfowl on 
our inland waters during those months, inasmuch as these con- 
ditions have the effect of hastening or retarding migration, and 
when met by a retarding influence the birds will congregate in 
large numbers in suitable feeding places. 
A remarkable assemblage of wildfowl was observed on Talkin 
Tarn during January, when it was estimated that there were not 
less than five hundred waterfowl belonging to seven different 
species, including a pair of Smews, a rare species of the Anatida, 
possessing a beautiful silvery-white plumage with black mark- 
ings, and only recorded about twenty times or so previously for 
Lakeland ; several Goosanders, four of them old males, with 
rich salmon-pink coloured breasts; some Golden-eyes, with the 
handsome black and white plumage of the adult male, and the 
sober brown and white of the female; Tufted Ducks, with their 
conspicuous white flank-feathers and erectile crest; several 
Mallards or common Wild Ducks; and lastly a large gathering 
of Ducks, which on close examination proved to be Pochards. 
These were roughly counted to two hundred and fifty birds, 
