ORNITHOLOGY IN 1851. 
Redcrested Whistling Duck 
Ferruginous or Nyroca Duck 
American Scaup 
Harlequin Duck 
Buffcl Headed Duck 
Caspian Tern 
Gull Billed Tern 
Ross’s Gull 
Laughing Gull 
Bulwer’s Petrel 
Wilson’s Petrel 
Fuligula rufa , Pall. 
F. leucophthalmos, Bechst. 
F. mariloides , Vig. 
Clangula histrionica (Linn.), S. 
C. albeola (Yarr.), 8. 
Sterna casjpia , Pall. 
Sterna anglica , Mont. 
Laras rossii, Rich. 
L. atricilla , Linn. 
Tfmlassidroma bulweri( Jard. & Selb.) 
T. wilsoni , Bonap. 
IRISH AND NON-BRITISH SPECIES. 
Riippell’s Tern 
White Winged Black Tern 
Noddy Tern 
Bonapartean Gull * 
Sterna velox, Rupp. 
S. leucoptera, Meisn. & Schinz. 
S. stolida, Linn. 
Laras bonapartii, Rich. & Sw., S. 
In an appendix winding up the work, there is an accouftt of 
Irish decoys, which seem to be fast giving way before the drainage 
of the country. One fact is stated which we are not aware has "been 
prominently brought forward before, the power of smelling among 
the Anatidce , and that sense used for the purpose of self-preserva- 
tion. A strong scent or odour of any kind seems to be felt, and 
prevents the working of the decoy. A spark falling on the shoot- 
ing jacket of a person accompanying the decoyman, prevented by 
its smell any ducks being taken. “ The smell of milk boiling over 
on the fire, in a farm-house perhaps 600 yards from the decoy, and 
the wind blowing from the house to the water, prevents a bird being 
taken the same day.” 
“ is of so much consequence to avoid any thing of this kind, 
that Mr. Skelton, Sen., who rents a farm of a thousand acres in 
connection with his decoy in Lincolnshire, forbids any cooking to be 
done in the house, sometimes for a few days, when the wind blows 
from it on the decoy.” 
, * ^ Zool °{?ist for May, 1851, there is a notice of a Gull shot on Loch Lomond 
nron on n > e °Ti G r r WhlC1 M . 1 / Yarre11, “ who has ki ndly investigated the matter, 
pionounces to be L. bonapavtn 
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