RED-CRESTED POCHARD. 
Mergoides Rufina. Linnaeus. 
A notice by Mr. Yarrell appears in the second volume 
of the Zoological Journal, of a bird of this species, which 
proved to be a young male, being shot near Boston, Lincolnshire, 
in the month of January, 1826 ; it was in company with a 
flight of Widgeons. A female specimen, also, Mr. Gould 
informs us, in his European Birds, is in the possession of the 
Hon. W. T. T. Fiennes, killed out of a flight of eighteen, on 
the Thames, at Erith, Kent. 
Nothing appears to be known of its nidification. Temminck 
