. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. ANATID^. 453. THE BUFFEL-HEADED DUCK. Clangula ALBioLA (Linnseus). About the winter of 1830 an adult male of this North American species was shot near Yarmouth, and is now in the Norwich Museum, having been purchased at the dispersal of the late Mr. Rising's collection. In ' The Birds of the West of Scotland' (p. 396), the late Mr. Robert Gray stated that he had examined a male shot on the Loch of Loriston, Aberdeenshire, in January 1865, as well as a bird of the same sex in the Banff Museum, obtained many years previously on the Loch of Strathb
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. ANATID^. 453. THE BUFFEL-HEADED DUCK. Clangula ALBioLA (Linnseus). About the winter of 1830 an adult male of this North American species was shot near Yarmouth, and is now in the Norwich Museum, having been purchased at the dispersal of the late Mr. Rising's collection. In ' The Birds of the West of Scotland' (p. 396), the late Mr. Robert Gray stated that he had examined a male shot on the Loch of Loriston, Aberdeenshire, in January 1865, as well as a bird of the same sex in the Banff Museum, obtained many years previously on the Loch of Strathbeg; while a bird—also a mature male—from Bridlington, Yorkshire, taken in the winter of 1864-65, is now in the collection of Mr. J. Whitaker of Rainworth. Some other records are unauthenticated, while one of them is known to be essentially untrue. The Buffel-headed Duck is not known to have occurred on the shores of the Continent, and even in Greenland Reinhardt was only aware of the occurrence of a female at Godthaab, about the year 1830. In America this species is found during the summer as far south as the States of Maine, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa, and across the Fur-countries to the Pacific, though rare in Northern Alaska. In autumn, and again in spring, an important line of migration is. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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