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we thought might belong to this species. There was no 

 nest or any other certain means of identification, but at the 

 time there was a fine Wigeon drake upon the lough close 

 by, in company with a couple of Teals of his own sex, 

 strongly suggestive of all three birds having sitting females 

 in the immediate vicinity. The Teals undoubtedly had, for 

 several nests were found during the afternoon, while from the 

 little pools amongst the heather surrounding the lough I 

 twice sprung a pair of Wigeons. 



We were informed that the keeper upon a neighbouring 

 estate had shot a duck, during the previous autumn, while 

 flapper shooting, which he thought was a young Wigeon ; 

 but it had not been preserved, and there is no evidence to 

 show what the bird really was. But as Mallards, Teal, 

 Tufted Ducks, Pochards, and Shovellers all breed there, and 

 should be well known to the man, it ought not to have 

 been any of these, and may quite possibly have really been 

 a Wigeon. 



I do not of course wish to attach any more weight to 

 the above facts than they deserve, but in view of the Selkirk- 

 shire station and of the evident southward trend of the 

 Wigeon as a breeding species, it may be interesting to 

 readers of the " Annals " to know how late they sometimes 

 linger in this district, where I have scarcely a doubt that 

 they will before long be actually found breeding. 



BERWICK-ON-TWEED, i6th June 1896. 



RECORDS OF COLEOPTERA COLLECTED IN 



SCOTLAND. 



By the Rev. A. THORNLEY, M.A., F.E.S., F.L.S. 



THE following notes on Scotch Coleoptera are given as a 

 small contribution to that most interesting subject the 

 distribution of living forms. It was therefore very desirable 

 to include all, even the commonest species, obtained from 

 the northern districts, e.g. Inverness, Caithness, etc. In such 

 remote localities as these it is important to note the slightest 



