184 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



GOLDEN-EYE. 



Clangula glaucion (Lin.), 



A pair seen by Mr. Lumsclen on Loch Lomond as late as 30th 

 April, 1879. Three Golden-eyes remained off the Berwickshire 

 coast as late as the 3rd May [J. Hardy]. Golden-eyes are reported 

 to have bred in a hollow tree at a locality in the south of Perth- 

 shire this summer — 1879. The young were taken and an attempt 

 made to rear them, but they all died. 



KING DUCK. 



SOMATEJRIA SPECTABILIS (Lin.). 



Plentiful in beginning of January about Dundee [J. Henderson, 

 in lit.]. 



At St. Kilda, in June, a party of gentlemen saw a Duck standing 

 or walking upon a rock, upon which too great a surf was running 

 to allow of their landing from the boat. One of the party,* who was 

 a good ornithologist, described the bird minutely to me, and both 

 he and I came to the conclusion that it could hardly be any other 

 bird than a male King Eider. He described it to me on board 

 the s.s. " Dunara Castle," immediately after having seen it. I am 

 particular in mentioning this, as I have for some years noticed 

 the tendency of several northern species of Duck to extend their 

 breeding range in a southerly direction. 



GOOSANDEPv. 



Mergus merganser, Lin. 



It is feared that the pair of Goosanders mentioned by Mr. J. H. 

 Buchanan in his paper " On the Birds which have been observed 

 in the Parish of Callander, Perthshire" [Proc. Royal Phys. Soc, 

 1878-9, p. 61], as having bred last year near that, have been shot, 

 and are now in Mr. Small's shop, Edinburgh. Goosanders were 

 unusually abundant in the Kelso district, and were very fat, being 

 gorged with trout and parr, and also eels, as reported by Mr. A. 

 Brotherston [''Scot. Nat." April, 1879, p. 82]. There is evidence 

 of a still further southerly extension of the breeding range of the 

 Goosander in Scotland, and their breeding is annually becoming 

 more and more general. A pair remained all summer on the 



* Mr. Boyd, of Greenock, since deceased. 



