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THE NATURALIST. 



Hooper. Are often shot at Marslicliapel. One was sliot at Tetney 

 and bronglit to me in 1852. I dined on it two days, but could not induce 

 others to eat more than a single mouthful. 



Shieldrake. Used to build every year at Humberstone, whence I have 

 twice had some young ones brought me. 



Shoveller. Was shot on the great Blowwell, at Tetney. 



Gad WALL. I Knox says it is shot in Sussex. I have had one sent me 

 from the Isle of Wight. 



Teal. Builds at Tetney. I have shot the young, and had the eggs 

 brought me. 



Widgeon. Common on the Blowwells, Tetney. - 



Scoter. I once saw the waters of Stokes Bay almost covered with this 

 bird. I shot one which is now in the Haslar Museum. 



Pochard. I have shot in numbers in Dorsetshii'e, Hampshire, Surrey, 

 and Lincolnshire, as also the Scaup. 



Golden Eye. Was sent to me from Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight, 

 with the Gadwall. 



Great ISTorthern Diver and Eed Throated Diver. I have seen on 

 the Lincolnshire coast in the waters off Tetney and Humber^tone. 



Cormorant. Five years ago Mr. Waterton of Walton Hall took an 

 egg at Flamborough Head, himself going down by the rope ! to get it. They 

 are common in Portsmouth harbour, near Penzance ; when bathing with a 

 Mr. Hockin in eighteen fathoms water in 1828, a cormorant made his appear- 

 ance before us on a small rock projecting out of the water, at about one 

 hundred and fifty yards from the shore. We had a smooth bore and some 

 bullets and I had the first shot and striick the rock at or on his feet, possibly 

 toucliing the claw ; at which he Avas so terrified that he leapt into the air for- 

 getting to open his wings and we thought he was killed by a splinter. How- 

 ever he recovered his senses and flew away. They are common there. 



Green Cormorant. Called Shag in Hampshire. I picked up a dead 

 one in Stokes' Bay, in the autumn of 1832. . 



Gannet. a pair made their appearance in the bright plumage of spring 

 at Tetney in 1852, one of which was killed. In Plymouth Sound, as I was 

 returning to Portsmouth Harbour 1828, one kept near tlie vessel for an hour. 

 In Mount's Bay, Cornwall, I have more than once seen them disperse a 

 " school" of pilchards to the great disgust of the fishermen. 



Arctic Tern. I shot when a boy at Spithead. It was sitting on the 

 buoy of the Koyal George. 



