THE GADWALL AS A SCOTTISH BREEDING SPECIES 19 



Sutherland. 



A scarce winter visitor ; has bred in both counties in the area. 



N. Sutherlatid. The only nesting record for this county is that 

 sent us by Mr Berry, who kindly informs us that he found a pair 

 nesting in the part of the county belonging to this area on i8th June 

 1 913 (in lit.). See Report on Scot. Orn., 1913, p. 15. 



Caithness. In July 191 2 a pair of Gadwall and young were seen 

 on a loch in Caithness {Scot. Nat., 1913, p. 44), while in 1914 a 

 pair and young were again observed on the same loch, and a 

 female and young on another loch some thirty miles distant 

 {Scot. JVat., 1915, p. 94). We wrote and asked Miss Jackson, 

 who recorded these occurrences, whether these lochs had become 

 permanently colonised, and she writes : " I did not find the Gadwall 

 nesting in Caithness this summer (1919), although I paid two 

 visits to the place, but it is just possible that the female may 

 have still been sitting or hiding in the reeds." This again looks 

 like sporadic nesting, but we have no doubt Miss Jackson will 

 keep an eye on these lochs with a view to settling this question. 



The above are all the breeding records of the Gadwall for 

 Scotland ; we shall now give very briefly its status in the faunal 

 areas where it has not bred. 



SOLWAY. 



A scarce winter visitor. 



Clyde. 



A scarce winter visitor. A pair was seen in 1909 on Bishop 

 Loch as late as 25th April {Scot. Nat., 1910, p. 205). 



Dee. 

 A rare visitor. 



Argyll and the Inner Hebrides. 

 Winter visitor, appears regularly and commonly in Tiree, but 

 seems to be scarce in the rest of the area. 



Outer Hebrides. 



Winter visitor and paired birds have been observed on North 

 Uist in summer. Mr Millais kindly informs us that a very con- 

 siderable immigration now takes place into North and South Uist 

 and Benbecula in late autumn. 



