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a large ditch running parallel with it, beyond which again 
was one of the wettest portions of the marsh. Here the 
nest, only a few feet from the roadside, was very imper- 
fectly hidden under a tuft of grass just on the top of the 
ditch side, and contained three eggs surrounded and half 
covered by the dark down. 
The Teal is plentiful over Ireland, where a considerable 
number nest, and is also resident and common in Galloway. 
In Cumberland and Lancashire, where it is numerous in 
winter, it also breeds, but in decreasing numbers, on the 
lakes and the mosses; it nests also in Anglesea. It nests 
in Orkney and Shetland; also, perhaps not commonly, in 
the Outer Hebrides. 
The Teal is one of the commoner British Ducks, but nests 
less plentifully in southern England. 
SPATULA CLYPEATA (Linn.). SHOVELLER, 
In the Wallace collection were two pairs of Shovellers, 
the males labelled as Manx. The females were not labelled 
(Rev. H. A. Macpherson, 2m (it.). 
Mr. Kermode says: ‘It has been taken at the Dog Mills, 
Lezayre, and about Castletown in the south.’ 
On 19th February 1891 four were observed at Langness, 
and three, two drakes and a duck, obtained; the other, a 
duck, though wounded, was not recovered. The drakes, one 
of which was considerably larger than the other, were very 
beautifully plumaged specimens. A pair of these obtained 
on this occasion is in the collection of Mr. T. Unsworth, of 
Douglas. 
In the winter of 1892-93 a drake in very poor plumage 
