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Teal continued more than usually plentiful on our inland streams 

 in central Scotland all through the severe frost of 27th Nov. to 

 9th Dec. At the same date they are reported " more numerous this 

 year than last year " in S. Uist, where the weather is also severe. 

 From 10th to 13th Dec. only one or two were seen on the Carron, 

 and none after that date until they returned in spring. 



SHOVELLER. 



Spatula clypeata (Lin.). 



Capt. Clarke Kennedy met with the Shoveller breeding on 

 Cally property in the Stewartry in June, 1878, and Mr. Hastings, 

 of Dumfries, received a young female Shoveller in August, 1879, 

 from Kirkmahoe, where doubtless it was bred. Col. Gordon 

 Maitland, of Kenmure, shot two young male Shovellers on Loch 

 Ken on 2nd Aug., 1880. There were three or four more of them — 

 evidently a brood hatched somewhere in the vicinity. This locality is 

 only some three or four miles from that where the two young males 

 above-mentioned were shot \y. Dumfries and Galloway Courier, 

 17th Aug., 1880]. At Keith, in Banffshire, I did not again meet 

 with any Shovellers, but there, this season, Ducks of all kinds were 

 scarcer than usual in August. Two were killed at Slains, and sent 

 to Mr. Geo. Sim, Aberdeen, for preservation. One was an old 

 female, and the other a young bird unable to fly. Mr. Sim adds 

 that they were known to have bred there. 



TUFTED DUCK. 



FULIGULA CRISTATA (Leach). 



[See Ducks, antea, p. 320.] 



POCHARD. 



FULIGULA FERINA (Lin.). 



[See Ducks, antea, p. 320]. 



SCAUP DUCK. 



FULIGULA MARILA (Lin.) 



Winter Ducks began to put in an appearance early in October. 

 Amongst others, a Scaup was brought in to Mr. Brotherston's 

 shop in Kelso, and one killed on Loch Tay in November, where 

 they arrived a month earlier than usual [see Ducks, antea, 



