ZOOLOGICAL NOTES 179 



Sea Eagle (Haliaetus albicilla) in West Ross-shire. On yth 

 April an immature Sea Eagle was sent by Mr. J. G. Henderson from 

 Ullapool, Garve, to Messrs. W. Mackay and Son for preservation. 

 The tail was turning white, that colour predominating, but the head 

 was very dark. T. E. BUCKLEY, Inverness. 



Nesting of the Tufted Duck in Renfrewshire and Wigtown- 

 shire. On the 24th of May of this year the writer, in walking round 

 one of the lochs in the parish of Eaglesham, Renfrewshire, raised 

 a Tufted Duck (Fuligula cristata) from her nest and eggs. Mr. 

 John Robertson of Eastwood, Thornliebank, who was about fifty 

 yards off, was immediately hailed, and we at once saw that we had 

 made an interesting addition to the birds of the political division of 

 East Renfrewshire, at which we have been working for several years 

 past. On the evening of the same day Mr. Robertson, having his 

 curiosity excited, paid a visit to a nest which he had seen some days 

 before at the White Loch, a very small sheet of water in the 

 adjoining parish of Mearns. It proved to be a nest of the same 

 species ; and, as there was a lot of down in this case, its identification 

 was rendered easy. A nest at the Little Loch, also in Mearns parish, 

 found on the igth of May on the occasion of the visit to that 

 district of the Ornithological section of the Andersonian Naturalists' 

 Society, is also referable to the Tufted Duck ; while a careful 

 examination of the eggs in Mr. Robertson's possession points to the 

 fact of the Tufted Duck having nested at least last year in the 

 Mearns district, which its general occurrence as now established 

 helps to confirm. 



In the course of a short holiday spent by the writer and Mr. 

 Robertson in Wigtownshire, in the first week of June this year, the 

 latter gentleman found on an islet on a large loch there a nest and 

 eggs of the Tufted I )uck. The bird was raised from the nest. The 

 nesting of this species in Wigtownshire does not seem to have come 

 before this time under the notice of Mr. Service, to whom the 

 information has been communicated. Mr. Service frankly gave us 

 many useful hints in connection with our visit to Galloway, which we 

 are glad to acknowledge. JOHN PATERSON. 



Albino Ring Dove and Mole near Kelso. A white Ring Dove 

 (Columba palumbus) was shot at Lochton, about four miles from 

 here, at the end of April, by John Hakin, who makes his living by 

 shooting pigeons. 



A white Mole (Talpa europccd] was caught in a mole trap at 

 Crown Point about the same date, half a mile below Kelso, by Mr. 

 John Trotter. ARCHIBALD STEEL, Kelso. 



Occurrence of the Whiskered Tern in Solway. On the 3oth 

 May I was most agreeably surprised when Mr. Hugh M'Kay, 



