GADWALL 167 
Of the Manx specimens of the latter year, twenty-five were 
purchased at Douglas and fourteen at Ramsey. 
Very few Mallard, comparatively, breed in the Isle of 
Man, but Mr. Crellin and Mr. J. B. Keig say that a few 
nest in the Curragh, and it is said that they have bred in 
the Greeba marshlands. Mr. Kermode has known a nest 
‘in a very exposed situation in a little clay dub at 
Lewaigue, and he also records a brood reared on the 
steep slope of the rocky and ferny Gob y Volley, over- 
looking the Curragh, to which across the highroad the 
mother was seen conducting them. Mr. W. Kermode says 
that in 1904 a brood was hatched on Dalby Mountain. 
The Mallard breeds very abundantly in Ireland, and 
is resident in every county. It is an abundant nesting 
species in Galloway also, and breeds on the mosses 
and lakes of Cumberland, and in suitable localities in 
Lancashire. It is also resident and common in Orkney, 
and fairly abundant in Shetland, and breeds in some at 
least of the Outer Hebrides, where, however, its numbers 
and their distribution seem not to be accurately known. 
CHAULELASMUS STREPERUS (Linn.). 
GADWALL. 
In 1903 Mr. H. 8. Clarke presented to the Isle of 
Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society a female 
specimen, obtained in the Curragh of Ballaugh on 18th 
March in that year. It is in excellent plumage. 
The Gadwall, generally a scarce British species, is an 
infrequent winter visitor to north-eastern Ireland, and is 
rare in the adjacent Scottish and English counties. There 
have been a few occurrences in the outer Scottish isles. 
