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Stirlingshire side. This bird has been preserved, and is now at 

 Buchanan Castle. 



This is the first specimen of this species which has occurred 

 within our district, and it is far from common in any part of the 

 West. 



WILD SWAN OR WHOOPEE, 



CYGNUS MUSIC US, Bechstein. 



Eight adult Wild Swans and one young one frequented Loch End, 

 Caldarvan, for several weeks during February and March, 1880. 

 Birds of this species were also seen on Loch Lomond about the 

 same time. 



Obs. Lieutenant-Colonel James Colquhoun informs me that he 

 saw two Black Swans on Loch Lomond, in June or July, 1879. 



LONG-TAILED DUCK. 



HARELDA G LAC I A LIS (Lin,). 



Many years ago a female of this lovely species was shot near 

 Ross Priory, and is now in Sir George Leith Buchanan's collection 

 there. With this exception it has never been recorded from our 

 district. 



The male bird now exhibited was shot two or three winters ago 

 (I have been unable to get the exact date) by one of the Cameron 

 gamekeepers. It was got at the lower end of the Loch, near 

 Cameron House. Although not a rare bird on the sea coasts of 

 Scotland, especially on the north and east, it is very seldom found 

 on any of our fresh- water lochs. 



SHIELDRAKE. 



TADORNA VULPANSER, Fleming. 



This is the only new species I have to add to the former list. 



A young bird was shot in the summer of 1877 by Sir George 

 Leith Buchanan. He thinks the bird must have been bred in the 

 neighbourhood. Some time previous to his obtaining the specimen, 

 he had observed an old bird and two young ones sailing about the 

 Loch, which he thought belonged to this species, but he failed to 

 get near enough to identify them with certainty. 



If the species has bred on the banks or on one of the islands of 

 the Loch, it is worthy of note, as it is unusual to find it nesting 

 so far from the sea. 



