208 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



as a vignette. It will be observed that the feet are only partially 

 webbed. 



(From a Photo done from the feet mounted 

 by Mr. Kirk, Glasgow.) 



GADWALL (Anas strepera), p. 103. Dr. C. Gordon has the 

 marginal note in his copy of MacGillivray's " British Birds," vol. v. p. 

 63 : " This bird has been shot by me frequently in South Uist, where 

 it also breeds in the same places with the Common Mallard."- (?). 



From internal evidence, in letters received from Mr. S. W. 

 Hartley, who rented the shootings of North Uist in the winter of 

 1898-99, the Gadwall appears to have slightly increased in numbers 

 there ; and in Benbecula Mr. Guthrie reports them as " much 

 about the same in numbers ; while Tufted Ducks and Golden-eyes 

 are on the decrease. But while an apparent dispersal takes place 

 of this species of duck to the Outer Hebrides, their haunts there as 

 yet are very restricted, and so far as observed by Mr. Hartley their 

 visits were confined to one loch in North Uist. A pair were shot 

 by Sir Arthur Campbell Orde in North Uist, November 2, 1892. 



During the twelve years that Sir W. Benger Smyth had the 



