GARGANET — COMMON TEAL — SHOVELLER. 
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Harley wrote : — “ I have also to record the capture of an exceedingly 
beautiful IMallard, met with at Ullesthorpe in this county in a wild state, which 
hore all the marks of hybridity,” but he did not describe its appearance. From 
what he had previously written, however, I should assume he intended to 
convey the idea that it was a hybrid between the Wild Duck and the Muscovy 
Duck. 
In Rutland. — As in Leicestershire. 
GARGANEY. Querqueclula circia (Linnaeus). 
“ Summer Teal.” 
A rare summer visitant. — It is here included on the authority of Mr. 
Macaulay, who (see ‘Mid Nat.’, 1881, p. 256) shot four (at one shot) at Saddington 
Reservoir, in July, 1868. Unfortunately, so little interest attached to these 
specimens that they were all eaten, and no feather remains to “ point a moral 
or adorn a tale.” 
In Rutland. — As in Leicestershire. — I was fortunate enough, in September, 
1888, to see a wing in the possession of C. Masters, which I recognised as 
belonging to this species. Masters told me that it belonged to one of four 
specimens which he shot on Burley Ponds in August, 1887. 
COMMON TEAL. Querquedula crecca (Linnaeus). 
Resident, but sparingly distributed. — Mr. Macaulay records (‘ Mid. Nat.,’ 1882, 
p. 11) — “I have shot them on Saddington Reservoir, and out of the river 
Welland.” Mr. Ingram writes : — “ Visits the Knipton Reservoir, and the lakes 
at Belvoir.” Mr. W. A. Vice, M.B., of Blaby Mills, shewed me a specimen 
shot on the mill-stream, and I have also seen a fine male, shot by Mr. Bevans, 
some years ago, at the Abbey Meadow. 
In the spring of 1825, Harley came across a brood, in a pond choked with 
rushes and sedges, near Dishley Mill. The nest, composed of rushes and grass 
and lined with down, was carefully concealed beneath a small shrub which 
overhung the pond. Both parents assisted in the care of the young. In 1844 
there was another nest of this species on the banks of Groby Pool, where 
the young, seven in number, came abroad early in the month of June. 
In Rutland. — As in Leicestershire. — One (a male) was presented to the 
Leicester Museum, in P'ebruary, 1886, by Mr. Horn, who informs me that this 
species is frequently seen and shot during the winter, and that it bred in a 
pond at Martinsthorpe about 1884 and 1885. 
SHOVELLER. Spatulo^ clypeata (Linnaeus). 
A rare winter visitant. — Mr. Babington (Appendix ‘Potter,’ p. 69) wrote: — 
“ Killed near Charnwood Heath. In the collection at Yoxall Lodge.” Harley 
remarked that, in his day, the Shoveller occurred on most of our large pools 
