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at liberty, and watched it fly away strong on the wing. HENRY D. 

 SIMPSON, Edinburgh. 



Glossy Ibis in Orkney. A Glossy Ibis (Plegadis faldnettus) was 



shot about a mile west of Stromness on the ipth of September last. 

 The above information, along with a photograph of the bird, was 

 most obligingly sent to me by Mr. N. A. M'Intosh of Stromness. 

 According to our present knowledge of the fauna of the Orkneys, 

 this appears to be the second occurrence there of this wanderer to 

 the British Isles, one having been obtained near Kirkwall in Sep- 

 tember 1857. W. EAGLE CLARKE. 



Gadwall in East Renfrewshire. A Gadwall (Anas strepera), 

 which we saw in the flesh on the 4th of December 1903 had been 

 shot at Dunwan Dam, Eaglesham, by one of the keepers of Mr. 

 Allan Gilmour, Yr. This is an addition to the birds of East 

 Renfrewshire, and indeed in Clyde only two records exist in addition 

 to this, viz. a recent one referring to Loch Lomond and an old one 

 to Ayrshire. JOHN PATERSON and JOHN ROBERTSON, Glasgow. 



Great Crested Grebe in West Sutherland. The Great Crested 

 Grebe (Podidpes cristatus) appears to be a rare visitor to the north of 

 Scotland, and when the first volume of the series of works on the 

 " Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland " was published some sixteen years 

 ago, no record was given of the occurrence of this species in West 

 Sutherland. It may therefore be interesting to know, that on jth 

 May last year I saw a fine specimen of this Grebe, in full breeding 

 plumage, on Loch Borrolan, near the famous trout-fishing centre of 

 Aultnagealgach, in West Sutherland. The proprietor of the hotel 

 said he had noticed a pair of these birds on the loch since the 

 February before, and that they were quite unknown to him, he never 

 having seen birds like them on the lochs in these parts. Trout 

 fishing was just beginning on the loch in the second week in May, 

 and the bird I saw soon left. It is usual, I believe, for these birds 

 to arrive at their breeding quarters in February or March, so it 

 seems quite possible that their species is extending its range, and 

 that the birds in West Sutherland were looking for new nesting 

 haunts. F. L. BLATHWAYT, Lincoln. 



Little Auk at Duddingston Loch. On the lyth of February 

 there was the largest collection of wild-fowl on the loch for this 

 season. Scaup (Fuligula marila) were in the majority. Close 

 behind a Shoveller (Spatula clypeata) which was feeding at the 

 water's edge I noted a Little Auk (Mergulus alle\ of which I had a 

 very close view for a little time. WILLIAM SERLE, Duddingston. 



The Loach (Nemachilus barbatulus) in the East of Seotland.- 

 In the recently published "Vertebrate Fauna of Dee," the Ichthyo- 

 logical portion of which relates to the East of Scotland from Wick 

 to Edinburgh, the author, Mr. G. Sim, after quoting Parnell and 



