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p. 320]. Scaup have been in extraordinary numbers in the Sol way 

 Firth, where usually they are scarce. Mr. Service writes me that, 

 since the ice melted, they have been numerous on the lochs. 

 Several persons living near Southerness told him that " a flock 

 extending along the shore from Southerness to the Borron point 

 (nearly two miles) came in at high tide, and, during the frosty 

 weather at the end of Dec. they were in such poor condition that 

 the local dealers would not take them at any price." 



GOLDEN EYE. 



Clangula glaucion (Lin. ). 

 [See Ducks, antea, p. 320]. 



VELVET SCOTER. 



Oedemia fusca (Lin. J. 

 Four appeared on Loch Tay in Nov. [D. Dewar, in lit.]. 



GOOSANDER. 



Mergus merganser, Lin. 



Reported as unusually abundant in very many localities — every 

 little stream around Perth holding a few. Mr. Maloch has been 

 receiving a few almost every day for some time before the 23rd 

 Dec, for preservation. 



I now know of Goosanders having bred regularly in a locality 

 in Perthshire since about 1864. I saw the old female there again 

 in Aug. this year, and the young were reported as having been 

 seen and chased. They are well known to the natives under 

 another name [see Ducks, antea, p. 320]. 



SMEW. 



Mergus albellus, Lin. 



Mr. Hastings records one sent him for preservation, killed in 

 Dumfriesshire. This is probably the same bird — a male — which 

 I saw in Mr. Small's shop in Edinburgh, in Jan., and which was 

 sent to him by Mr. Erskine, gunmaker, Newton-Stewart. 



LONG-TAILED DUCK. 



Harelda glacialis (Lin. ). 



Mr. Hastings records one sent in to him in Dumfries, in his 

 paper quoted above, and adds that it is an extremely rare species 



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