Mareca penelope, L., Widgeon.—Spring: Allonby, two flocks of fifty or sixty on February 11th (evening, flying due E.). Ravenglass, last seen on April 23d. Flights of this and other fowl began to pass over Rockliffe in an E. or N.E. direction on April 21st, but the movement became accentuated on April 27th, on which evening large flocks began to pass up the Eden at 9 P.M. The movement continued in full swing up to 10.45, there generally being five minutes, and never more than ten, between parties; after 11th they continued to pass, but the movement had become less marked.
Autumn: Numbers at Monkhill on September 13th.
Clangula glaucion (L.), Golden-eye.—Spring: April 26th, last seen at Monkhill, Cumberland.
Autumn: October 21st and 24th, Allonby, Cumberland.
Œdemia fusca (L.), Velvet Scoter.—December 23d, a fine adult male shot on Eden.
Mergus serrator, L., Red-breasted Merganser.—April 13th, N.W. Merioneth, a flock of about a dozen, the last seen.
Turtur communis, Selby, Turtle Dove.—Autumn: September 11th, Minehead, Somerset, one. October 3d, Wolf Rock, a "Turtle Dove" at 11 A.M.
Coturnix communis, Bonnat., Quail—Autumn: September 3d, one in the morning. October 5th, Eddystone, two caught at 2 A.M.
Crex pratensis, Bechst., Corn-Crake.—Spring: April 26th and 27th, Carlisle and District. May 9th, Holyhead Breakwater, one at 2 P.M.
Autumn: October 9th, Skerries, one killed between 2 and 4 A.M.; 20th, Smalls, one killed.