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Mareca PENELOPE (Wigeon). — Nest in heather with six eggs, 28th 

 May, Awe. Brood of ten near Dornoch Firth, 27 th June. 

 Reappeared in Cromarty Firth on nth August, a small flock. 

 Two flocks on 13th at Swordale (E. Ross). Reappeared at 

 Hopetoun on 27th September. 



FuLiGULA FERINA (Pochard). — Last seen Linlithgow, 13th March; 

 N.W. Mull, 5th April (2). Watten Loch, Caithness, a lot on 

 9th July. Reappears Linlithgow Loch, 25th September: Loch 

 Libo, 13th October. At last named on i8th October (44), 

 22nd (55), 4th November (120), 15th (220), 6th December 

 (120). 



F. MARiLA (Scaup Duck). — Glen Dam (E. Renfrew), i8th September 



Clangula glaucion (Golden-eye). — Loch Leven, i6th May and 

 5th June, eighteen; Loch Coulter (Denny Hflls), loth June, 

 nineteen (p. 50). Glen Dam (E. Renfrew), i8th September, 

 one (^ juv.). 



Harelda glacialis (Long-tailed Duck). — On the Spey, forty miles 

 inland, in October, one (ad. ? ) (p. 49). Balcomie (Crail), 

 2 1 St October, four or five. 



Somateria mollissima (Common Eider-Duck). — At the Flannan 

 Islands, at Sule Skerry, at Butt of Lewis, and in N.W. Mull, 

 small movements, 8th March-i7th April. Bred in June at 

 Colvend, Kirkcudbrightshire; young in down seen there in July. 

 At the Flannan Islands in decreasing numbers from September 

 till 1 2th November (2). 



CEdemia nigra (Common Scoter). — A large flock ofl" Graemsay, 

 Orkney, in first week of March (" Brit. Birds," ii. p. 166). At 

 Lendalfoot (S. Ayr) great flocks of Scoters ; supposed this 

 species going south on 2nd November — a very uncommon 

 sight, none of the Scoters being numerous there at any time. 



Mergus merganser (Goosander). — Twenty to twenty-eight passed 

 the winter at Linlithgow Loch ; last appearance there, a pair, 

 20th May (p. 50). Reappeared there 21st August (i), but 

 no increase till 23rd November (15). At Loch Libo (Caldwell), 

 9th November till 5th April (i), in varying numbers, usually 

 three, four, or six. 



M. SERRATOR (Rcd-breastcd Merganser). — At Largo, a lot display- 

 ing on 19th February; several still there, 6th May. At 

 Cromarty Firth, one with eighteen young on 14th July. At 

 Largo on loth November, about 30; and in Barra Sound, 

 early in November, 300 in one small bay (p. 4). 



M. ALBELLUS (Smew). — At Dalswinton, Dumfriesshire, on 6th 

 January, two immature. 



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