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and its breeding range is circumpolar. In the Pal?earctic 

 Region it is seldom found nesting north of the Arctic Circle, 

 but extends from thence southwards to North Africa, and is 

 said to be resident in the Abyssinian highlands. In North 

 America it breeds from Alaska southwards to the southern 

 United States. In winter it ranges to the Canary Islands, 

 Senegambia, Somaliland, and has been incorrectly recorded 

 from the Cape ; also to Arabia, India, Ceylon, South China, 

 Formosa, and the Hawaiian Islands. In America it winters 

 in the West Indies, Panama, and Colombia, and has been 

 recorded from Newfoundland and the Bermudas." The dis- 

 tricts in Europe in which this duck breeds most plentifully seem 

 to lie in Denmark, Germany, Bohemia, and southern Russia. 

 It will be obvious from the above distribution that the 

 Shoveler is much less of an Arctic breeding duck than the 

 VVigeon, consequently the line of advance of the two species 

 in Scotland differs utterly. 



Chronological List of Scottish Breeding Places of 



THE Shoveler. 



1833. Has been known to breed in the neighbourhood of the 

 Tweed. (Selby, ///. Brit. Orii., vol. ii., p. 297). 



1843 (prior to). Gullane (Jardine's Nat. Lib., vol. xiv., p. 123). 



185 1. Loch Spynie, Morayshire {JVat. Hist, and Sport in Moray, 

 p. 126). 



187 1 (before). Dumbartonshire {Birds of the West of Scotland, 



V- 365)- 



1875 (from about). Craigleith Moss, Murthly, Perthshire {A 

 Vertebrate Faima of Tay and Strathmore, p. 234). 



1876. Hoselaw Loch, Roxburgh {A Fauna of Tweed, p. 156). 



1878. Loch of Cotts, Morayshire {Fauna of Moray, 1889, p. t,t,). 



1880. Loch Leven, Kinross-shire {Proc. Roy. Phy. Soc. Edin., 

 vii., 1882, p. 202). 



1885. Methven and elsewhere in Perthshire {Scot. Nat., 1885-86, 

 p. 369). 



1885. Loch Gelly, South Fife (W. Evans, in litt.). 



1886. (about). Yetholm Loch and several neighbouring places 



{Birds of Northuniberhifid ail ' ^ Fasterfi Border, p. 376). 



1887. Young shot, Tiree {Fauna of A ^^ 7 and the Inner Hebrides, 



p. 128). 

 1887. Loch ma Haick, near Doune, S.W. Perth (W. Evans, in litt.). 



