148 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



TOTANUS CANESCENS (Greenshank). 

 Outer Hebrides Barra, Aug. 1 3. 



STERNA ARCTICA (Arctic Tern). 

 Outer Hebrides Barra, May 14, many. 



LARUS GLAUCUS (Glaucous Gull). 

 Outer Hebrides Barra, Feb. 6, two. 



COLYMBUS GLACIALIS (Great Northern Diver). 

 Outer Hebrides Barra, Oct. 1 7. 



PODICIPES AURITUS (Sclavonian Grebe). 

 Outer Hebrides Barra, Oct. 18, one. 



SOME NOTES ON THE TUFTED DUCK 



(FULIGULA CRIST AT A] 



By WILLIAM EVANS, F.R.S.E. 



ORNITHOLOGISTS are much indebted to Mr. Harvie-Brown 

 for bringing together the information contained in his valuable 

 paper on " The Tufted Duck in Scotland," which appeared in 

 the January number of this journal. 



Besides the published records referred to in that paper, 

 I have a note of several others, some of which seem to me of 

 sufficient interest to warrant their reproduction in these pages 

 while the subject is fresh in our minds. The more important 

 are : 



i. Pennant's statement in his "Sketch of Caledonian 

 Zoology," prefixed to Lightfoot's " Flora Scotica " (first 

 published in 1778), namely that it " frequents the Orknies 

 in winter during a N. wind." This statement, Professor 

 Newton tells me, " was no doubt derived from Low, who 

 furnished all the Orcadian information having been employed 

 by Pennant to do so ; but in Low's own account as printed by 

 Leach ("Fauna Orcadensis," p. 138, 1813) nothing is said 

 about the Tufted Duck frequenting the islands in a north 



