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parish on the nth April of this year, and was seen by me shortly 

 thereafter in the hands of Mr. Dummond Pringle, Chapel, Braid- 

 wood, who preserved it. Mr. Joseph M'Kay, keeper on the West- 

 sidewood Estate, Carnwath, has kindly informed me that he killed a 

 Rough-Legged Buzzard (Archibuteo lagopus) on the Woodend Moor 

 there on the i5th of March of this year. JOHN PATERSON, 

 Glasgow. 



Great Spotted Woodpecker in Dalmeny Park. On the 26th 

 of May my father, Mr. William Campbell, obtained a good view of a 

 Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopus major] in an oak tree in 

 one of the plantations in Dalmeny Park. From the occurrence of 

 the bird at this season of the year, it is more than possible that it is 

 breeding in the locality. It has not, however, come under further 

 observation. CHARLES CAMPBELL, Dalmeny Park. 



Bewick's Swan in the Outer Hebrides. It may be worthy of 

 note in your magazine that two adults and one immature bird of 

 Bewick's Swan (Cygnus bewicki) were shot in the month of February 

 last on a fresh-water loch on North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. I 

 do not think that this species has been recorded there on authority, 

 though we often get the Whooper (Cyg/n/s untsicus]. JOHN W. P. 

 CAMPBELL ORDE, Kilmory. 



Nesting of the Pochard in Fife. On i3th May last (1896) I 

 observed four drake Pochards (Fuligula ferina) on one of the Fife- 

 shire lochs ; and a short search revealed two ducks of the same 

 species, one of which rose straight off her nest containing nine eggs. 

 Beyond taking an egg and a little of the down as vouchers, I did 

 not further disturb the birds. In the body of Saunders's "Manual" it 

 is stated that the Pochard nests in Fifeshire, but the statement is 

 deleted by an entry in the errata slip inserted at the end of the 

 introduction. Although there is evidence of a pair having reared a 

 brood in Moray in St. John's time, the first authentic Scottish eggs 

 appear to be those taken by Mr. J. Hamilton-Buchanan on a loch 

 in South- West Perthshire in May 1879. Other breeding-places have 

 since been recorded, but they are still few and far between, though 

 no doubt more exist than we at present have knowledge of. That 

 the bird is spreading as a breeding species in Scotland is evident, 

 but its increase, so far, has been remarkably slow in comparison with 

 that of the Tufted Duck. Whether a more rapid expansion is now 

 about to take place remains to be seen. Suitable habitats, that is, 

 inland waters with extensive reed beds, for which it seems to have a 

 decided preference, are, however, much less numerous than the 

 simple rush- and sedge-girt lochs and ponds that satisfy its ally. 

 WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Pochard and Tufted Duck breeding in Orkney. I have just 

 received a letter from J. G. Moodie-Heddle, Esq., of Hoy, telling 



