igS THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



The Teal, Afias crecca crecca. — A Teal visited the Isle of May 

 on 4th April, two were at Fair Isle on 28th April, and four next 

 day, while a female was observed on the Island of Noss on 23rd 

 May. On 7th September a bird of this species was shot at Megget 

 Knowes during a grouse shoot, and one was on Pentland Skerries 

 on 9th September. A good deal of movement of small numbers 

 of Teal is reported from our Northern Isles and the Isle of 

 May between 4th October and 9th November, and on nth 

 November one was killed at the Rhinns of Islay lantern. 



The Wigeon, A^ias penelope. — From 9th March to the end of 

 April departures of Wigeon are recorded ; four, two ducks and two 

 drakes, from Lerwick on ist May, one oft" Dundee on 9th May, five 

 off Luce Sands on 15th May, and one, possibly a pricked bird, off 

 Port William on 21st May. On ist August a female is reported at 

 Lerwick, seventeen at Luce Sands on nth August, forty to fifty 

 on the Beauly Firth on i8th August, and four or five on Morton 

 Loch (N. Fife) on 28th August. From 12th September to 25th 

 October a good deal of movement is noted from many stations ; the 

 period of maximum movement seems to have been from 19th to 

 27th September. 



The Pintail, Anas acuta. — On 24th February about fifty of 

 these handsome duck were seen in Wigtown Bay, a male and female 

 on the Clyde, near Langbank, on 13th March, and about sixty in the 

 Beauly Firth on 15th iVpril. 



On 7th September two Pintail were observed in Largo Bay, 

 a male on Morton Loch (N. Fife) on loth September, and some 

 there on 24th September, twenty to thirty in the Beauly Firth on 

 27th September, and a flock of thirty-two in Wigtown Bay on 30th 

 November. 



The Shoveller, Spatula dypeata. — On 6th March a Shoveller 

 Drake is recorded from Glenorchard, a pair at Torrs Sandhills 

 (Wigtownshire) on 7th May, and a drake on Soulseat Loch on 12th 

 May. On i6th October ten arrived on the Castle Lake, Duns; 

 " males still in partial eclipse, stayed till driven off by the November 

 frost." 



The Pochard, Nyroca ferina feri?ia. — Thirty-five Pochard are 

 reported from Lerwick on 4th March, and by nth March they had 

 increased to fifty-nine ; many on Kilconquhar Loch on 20th April. 

 One is noted at Lerwick on ist August, and fifty to sixty on 

 Mochrum Loch, and twenty on Castle Lake, Duns, on nth 

 September. 



