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A COKNISS FATJUA. 
Q-acIwall, Cmliodm strepera ; rare : one specimen, and the only 
one recorded from this neighbourhood. 
Pintail Duck, Querquedula acuta-, common in the Land’s-end 
district in severe weather. 
Garganey, Q. oircia ; a spiring visitor in Cornwall : a few summers 
since several were obtained in the neighbourhood of Pen- 
zance in very beautiful plumage. 
Teal, Q. crecca ; the most regular of our duck visitors every win- 
ter, apipiearing sometimes early in the autumn. 
AVigeon, Mareca Penelope ; a regular visitor to the Land’s-end 
district. 
•Eider Duck, Somateria mollissima ; one spieeimen killed on the 
river Looe : rarely seen in southern latitudes. 
Velvet Scoter, Oidemia fusca-, sometimes seen in Mount’ s-bay, 
and one shot at Penzance quay. 
Common Scoter, 0. Nigra ; rare : occasionally seen in Mount’s- 
bay and captured. All the scoters are oceanic in their 
habits, and are more frequently seen at sea than inland. 
Surf Scoter, 0. perspicillata ; a rare bird in England, and only 
occasionally seen in the north of Scotland. A spieeimen of 
this duck in adult plumage was picked upi in a dying state 
on the beach at St. Mary’s, SoHly, on the 22nd September ; 
the autumnal moult was completed and the pDlumage yet 
black, — the white on the top and back of the head, pure 
white, — ^the colour of the anterior portion of the bill, Seville- 
orange-yellow, — nail, greyish-yellow. 
Pochard, F. ferina ; not uncommon in the winter months after 
frost. 
Scaup Duck, F. marila ; rare in the western districts, a few occur- 
ring in severe weather : the female has a broad white patch 
at the base of the bill. 
Tufted Duck, F. cristata ; found in the Land’s-end district in all 
winters with more or less frost. 
Long-tailed Duck, Harelda glacialis ; very rarely found in the 
southern counties of England ; a female killed on Marazion 
marsh a few years since, and at Tregothnan. 
Golden Eye, C. vulgaris ; not an uncommon spieoies in hard 
winters in the Land’s-end district. 
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