. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . ormarsh remote from cultivation, and is composed of deadgrasses and other plants, with a lining of down and eggs are of a greenish cream colour, and vary in numberfrom eight to fifteen. The food consists of water plants,grasses, and insects. ANSERES. ( 112 ) ANA THE GARGANEY. SUMMER TEAL, CRICKET TEAL, PIED WIGEON. Querquedula circia. Strange fffwl light upoti neighbouring ponds. Shakespeare, Cymb
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . ormarsh remote from cultivation, and is composed of deadgrasses and other plants, with a lining of down and eggs are of a greenish cream colour, and vary in numberfrom eight to fifteen. The food consists of water plants,grasses, and insects. ANSERES. ( 112 ) ANA THE GARGANEY. SUMMER TEAL, CRICKET TEAL, PIED WIGEON. Querquedula circia. Strange fffwl light upoti neighbouring ponds. Shakespeare, Cymbeline. The Garganey, which is a little larger than the Teal andsomewhat like it in appearance, has apparently beenobtained only once in Berwickshire, a beautiful malehaving been shot by Mr. H. Hewat Craw on the millpond at Foulden West Mains, on the 11th of March1886. He has informed me that it was accompaniedby another duck of the same kind, which may havebeen a female. This species is a rare visitor to Scotland, but hasoccurred on migration in several counties. It winters inthe south of Europe, and its breeding quarters extend asfar north as Denmark, Sweden, and ANSERES. ( 113 ) AN ATID^. THE WIGEON. WHEW DUCK, PANDLE WHEW, YELLOW POLL, WHISTLER,WHIM, BALD PATE, HALF DUCK, SMEE DUCK. Mareca penelope. Who can recount what transmigrations thereAre annual made ? What nations come and go ?And how the living clouds on clouds arise ?Injinite wings ! till all the plume-dark rude resounding shore are one wild cry. Thomson, Autumn. This winter visitor is seen in flocks off the coast, andoccasionally in small numbers on the ponds ^ and riversin the interior of the county. It generally arrives fromthe north in October and leaves in March or the begin-ning of April. Mr. Kelly records that a flock frequented an old water-run of the Leader, between New Mills ground and thehaugh, from the beginning to the middle of October someyears ago, and that the crop of one which was s
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