-m I HE BJRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
On the Beaulieu Estate this species is even supposed 
to have nested, so the Hon. J. Scott-Montagu informs us, 
and as numbers now nest regularly in Norfolk, we think it 
highly probable that an occasional pair may remain to 
breed in such a favoured and secluded spot as the Beau- 
lieu domain, more particularly because pinioned birds of 
this species are kept on some of the ponds on the estate. 
This bird is included as a winter visitor in the Island 
lists, but appears to have been unknown to Hawker. 
Genu S — Querquedula. 
173. Querquedula circta. Garganey. 
A scarce spring and summer visitor to a few localities 
in the county, and of occasional occurrence in the Isle of 
Wight. 
In Mr. Hart's collection at Christchurch is a pair 
procured on March 25th, 1870, and he mentions that it 
occasionally breeds in that district. 
Mr. J. Stares has recorded ^ its nesting near Fareham in 
1897, when two pairs were seen in some marshy meadows 
on April 15th; only one pair then was seen until May 
nth, and after that date one male bird only ; on July 7th, 
a female was seen with three young ones able to fly, but 
after August ist, none were observed. 
There is a specimen in Lord Malmesbury's collection 
at Heron Court, and it has also been observed at Alresford 
(Baring). 
In the Isle of Wight, Mr. A. V. Willett has procured a 
specimen, and Mr. R. Hooper has recorded it in 1874.2 
^"Zoologist." March, 1898. Zoologist." 1874. 
