THE WIGEON AS A SCOTTISH BREEDING SPECIES 35 



central Ross-shire, and Loch Awe is evidently an overflow 

 from the old-established quarters at the Moor of Rannoch 

 and Loch Eigheach. A side-stream carried the species to 

 Loch Leven in 1888 ; the next year Wigeon bred on Murthly 

 Bog, while by 1897 their nesting is recorded in south Kincar- 

 dineshire. 



Another point worthy of notice, is that areas in the 

 extreme east and west have not yet been colonised. For 

 instance, there is no breeding record from Dee, the Outer 

 Hebrides or Skye, only one from the Inner Hebrides, 

 none from Clyde, before reaching which the advance bent 

 to the eastward in the direction of Roxburghshire, thereby 

 also missing Solway, from which there is only one record, 

 this being from Kirkcudbright. 



The chronological aspect of the records from Orkney and 

 Shetland is very unsatisfactory ; we have found it impossible 

 to trace, even approximately, the date of their colonisation. 

 All we can say is, that the Wigeon was breeding in Orkney 

 before 1871, and in Shetland before 1874, but how long 

 before it is impossible to say. 



We give below the chronological list, as far as we have 

 been able to trace it, of the breeding places of the Wigeon in 

 Scotland. We are well aware that it is far from complete, 

 and any additional information as to breeding places of this 

 and the species treated of in our last paper, namely, the 

 Gadwall, will be gratefully received. 



Chronological List. 



1834. Loch Laighal, N. Sutherland (Jardine, Nat. Lib.., vol xiv., 



p. 132). 



1835. Loch Shin, Loch Naver, and Loch Hope, N. and E. 



Sutherland {A Vertebrate Fauna of Tay and Strat/wwre, 

 p. 238). 

 1844. Glen Garry, E. Inverness {Trans. Norf. and Nonv. IS/at. Soc, 

 vii., p. 3). 



1848. Loch Naver, numerous {Tour in Sutherland., p. 61). 



1849. East and Central Sutherland, breeding abundantly {Fauna of 



Sutherland, p. 190). 

 1865 (before). Ross-shire, breeding regularly {Ibis, 1865, p. 444). 

 1865 (before). Caithness, nest found {Ibis, 1865, p. 444). 



