. British birds. Birds. nOTES. GARGANEY IN ANGLESEY. On August 2nd, 1917, I shot a Garganey {Anas querquedula) in a bog near Valle3^ Anglese3^ It was a male in eclipse plumage, and was identified at the British Museum. The skin is now at the Grosvenor Museum, Chester. It is, I believe, a rare bird in the west of England, and I thought I ought to record its occurrence. J. A. Pownall. rin his Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales, Mr. H. E. Forrest gives four instances of the occurrence of the Garganey in Anglesey, and considers it a rare visitor to North Wales. We believe that it has not l)een record
. British birds. Birds. nOTES. GARGANEY IN ANGLESEY. On August 2nd, 1917, I shot a Garganey {Anas querquedula) in a bog near Valle3^ Anglese3^ It was a male in eclipse plumage, and was identified at the British Museum. The skin is now at the Grosvenor Museum, Chester. It is, I believe, a rare bird in the west of England, and I thought I ought to record its occurrence. J. A. Pownall. rin his Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales, Mr. H. E. Forrest gives four instances of the occurrence of the Garganey in Anglesey, and considers it a rare visitor to North Wales. We believe that it has not l)een recorded from Anglesey since 1905.—Eds.] SHAGS IN CHESHIRE AND LANCASHIRE. At least three immature Shags {Phalacrocorax g. graculus) were captured or observed in Cheshire and Lancashire during September, 1917. The first bird was caught on September 8th by Mr. J. S. Schofield, in a stretch of the Manchester and Huddersfield Canal which passes through Cheshire at Mossley. It was kept alive by the Mossley Natural History Society, and at first described as a Cormorant, but my friend Mr. Fred Taylor, of Oldham, went lo see it on my behalf, and identified it. The second, I learn from Mr. J. W. Cutmore, was caught in the Gladstone Dock at Liverpool, and taken alive to the Free Public Museum. The third I saw myself at Rostheme Mere, Cheshire, eleven miles south of Manchester. On September 29th, when I first noticed the bird, it was at some distance from the shore, swimming very low in the Avater, with its neck gracefully curved, and its bill held at an angle of about 50 degrees with the water-level. I failed, however, to get it in a satisfactory light, or indeed to get near enough to see any detail of plumage. On the 30th, however, I found it standing on a mooring-stake close to the border of the mere, and under cover of the trees and bushes got to within ten yards, with a bright sun weU behind me. It was, I should say, a bird in the second autumn, but I have failed to find any fuU account
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