. A natural history of the ducks . of France it has been questionably reported as nesting about the mouth of the Rhone in Carmague (Miiller, Journ. , vol. 4, p. 252, 1856; lHermitte, 1916) and in Aude and Herault (La Croix, 1875), thoughthese localities cannot be regarded as within the regular range. A. Chapman and Buck (1910) state that the species is said to nest in the marismas of Spain, but I find no other reliable information of its status as a breeder in the peninsula. It breeds commonly in Sardinia, however (Picchi, 1904; Brooke, 1873), and there are two records Sardinia of its
. A natural history of the ducks . of France it has been questionably reported as nesting about the mouth of the Rhone in Carmague (Miiller, Journ. , vol. 4, p. 252, 1856; lHermitte, 1916) and in Aude and Herault (La Croix, 1875), thoughthese localities cannot be regarded as within the regular range. A. Chapman and Buck (1910) state that the species is said to nest in the marismas of Spain, but I find no other reliable information of its status as a breeder in the peninsula. It breeds commonly in Sardinia, however (Picchi, 1904; Brooke, 1873), and there are two records Sardinia of its breeding on the mainland of Italy, namely, at Ostia and at Massaciuccoli Italy (Whitaker, 1905). According to dAubusson (1911) it breeds rarely on Malta. It Malta has been occasionally seen in summer around Venice (Arrigoni degli Oddi, 1898) and may breed there. It has been met with and young specimens have been taken at Salona, Dalmatia(Kolombatovic, 1903). The only other record of its occurrence in summer in the former Austro-. COMMON SHELDRAKE 209 Hungarian Monarchy, is that of a specimen taken on June 22, 1907, in Moravia (von Tschusi zuSchmidhoffen, Zool. Garten, vol. 49, p. 276, 1908). It never breeds regularly any- Moraviawhere south of the Carpathians. The two records of its nesting in Switzerland at Bas Switzer-Valais and in the Sarine Valley, are regarded, and I believe justly so, as very doubt- landful (Fatio, 1904). In Russia the Sheldrake breeds on the coasts of the Baltic Provinces, in Esthonia and Livonia(Loudon-Lisden, 1909). J. von Fischer (1872) reported it common at Petrograd, but it appears fromlater writers that at best the birds are very rare in that region (von Brandt, 1880; „Biichner, 1887). There is no evidence of its having bred in the interior in Lithuania,Poland or Little Russia, though Taczanowski (1888) has recorded a small flock in Poland in August,and I think we may assume that the species breeds there sporadically as in the interior of German
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