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Then the three drakes swam around the female, reiterating 

 their call-note — JcreJc, JcreJc ; finally all four flew off together and 

 joined their brethren in the sedge beds. Teal are partial to 

 many inland waters, among others to Whin's Pond, Edenhall. 

 In August perhaps their most favourite haunt is the salt marsh. 

 Many of the young are very fearless. I have flushed a Teal 

 three consecutive times in the course of half-an-hour without 

 inducing the bird to leave the spot, but this was in the gloam- 

 ing, when the bird was no doubt anxious to feed. 



GARGANEY. 



Querquedula circia (L.). 



Our first record of the appearance of the Garganey, as a rare 

 spring visitant to Lakeland, is furnished by a loose note of 

 T. C. Heysham, dated the 18th of August 1848. This states: 

 1 Story the birdstuffer this day informs me that in the spring 

 two pair of Garganey were seen near Carlisle, viz., one pair on 

 the Eden near the Swifts, which were killed and brought to 

 him. These went to Newcastle. The other pair was seen near 

 Drumburgh ; the male was killed and the female escaped.' The 

 elder Hope stuffed two drakes, shot at Tarn Wadling before it 

 was drained (in 1858), by Lord Lonsdale. Thomas Armstrong 

 recorded a drake Garganey shot near Carlisle in 1857. A 

 keeper named Pearson shot a beautiful male near Gilsland in the 

 spring of 1882. William Sharp stuffed a male, shot near Bow- 

 ness on Solway the same autumn. Richard Moore reported 

 that he shot a Garganey on Millom salt marshes in December 

 1884. In the autumn of the same year I examined a locally- 

 killed Blue-winged Teal, but too late to preserve the specimen. 

 On the 15th day of August 1890 a man named Sharp shot an 

 adult female Garganey near Glasson. This I examined the 

 following day. Whether it was a recent arrival, or had bred 

 in this region, could not be decided ; but the wing quills were 

 much worn, and it showed a hatching spot. The Kendal 

 Museum contains a mounted Garganey drake, which Mr. 

 Hutchinson believes to have been a local specimen, but its 

 antecedents are not vouched for by any label. 



