WIGEON BREEDING IN SELKIRKSHIRE 231 



LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, Larus fuscus, L. Not infrequently 

 seen in summer on the lochs and moors. Scarcer in winter. 



KITTIWAKE GULL, Rissa tridactyla (L.) One was found dead at the 

 Brother Loch, nth November 1894. 



LITTLE AUK, Mergulus alle (L.) One was captured at Balgray Dam 

 on 3ist January 1895 during the irruption of this species. 



PUFFIN, Fratercula arctica (L.) Two have occurred in recent years 

 one at Darnley, and the other near Mearns Castle. 



RED-THROATED DIVER, Colymbus septentrionalis, L. Mr. Creber, of 

 the Waterworks, Darnley, has one which was shot on the Glen 

 Dam about four years ago. 



GREAT CRESTED GREBE, Podicipes cristatus (L.) This handsome 

 bird has bred in this district in recent years ; and though it has 

 been much persecuted it still reappears in its breeding haunts, 

 where we have observed it in the present year (1895). 



RED-NECKED GREBE, Podicipes griseigena (Bodd.) and SCLAVONIAN 

 GREBE, Podicipes auritus (L.) Probably the above are what 

 were intended by the writer of the New Statistical Account of 

 Eaglesham for Podicipes ruficollis and the Eared Grebe. 



LITTLE GREBE, Podicipes fluviatilis (Tunstall). Common. 



FORK-TAILED PETREL, Cymochorea kucorrhoai^i r ieill). One was found 

 dead near Mearns on the day of the Tay Bridge storm in 

 December 1879. This bird is in the possession of Mr. Daniel 

 Waterhouse, Newton Mearns. 



WIGEON (MARECA PENELOPE) BREEDING IN 



SELKIRKSHIRE. 



By PETER ADAIR. 



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WITH reference to Mr. Wm. Evans's note ("Annals," 1893, 

 p. 115), I have much pleasure in reporting this bird as an 

 undoubted breeding species in the small lochs which he 

 visited in June 1889. 



In connection with the point, it may not be out of place 

 to state the result of my observations during an annual 

 angling visit to one of the lochs for a period of some fifteen 

 years. A day yearly has been devoted to the loch referred 

 to, generally in the middle of June or a week later. Here 

 this bird was not observed by me till June of 1884 or 1885; 



