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168. Ferruginous Duck. —Occasional on Loch of Strathbeg— (Mr. 

 Horn, Proc. N. H. Soc , Glasgow, 1880, p. 255.) 



169. Buffel-headed. Duck. — A male was shot, many years ago, on 

 the Loch of Strathbeg, and is now in the Museum at Banff— (Gray, Bds., W. 

 Scot., p. 396.) 



170. Golden Eye. — Bred on Loch Achray in Perth (fide]. A. Harvie 

 Brown), and also in a loch in Fife. 



171. Harlequin Duck. — A male in full plumage was shot in 1858, on 

 the Aberdeenshire coast — (Gray's Birds of W. Scotland, p. 394.) 



173. Eider Duck. — Still breeds on Sands of Barry in Forfar and on 

 Tentsmuir in Fife ; and is occasionally seen on Loch Tay. 



174. King" Duck is perhaps a regular winter visitant at the mouth of 

 the Tay and St. Andrew's Bay. Two Tay-shot specimens, male and female, 

 are in the P.S.N.S. Museum, Perth. A very interesting article on these birds 

 in St. Andrew's Pay and the estuary of the Tay, by Mr. Robert Walker, ap- 

 peared in the Scottish Naturalist vol. ii., p. 49. 



175. Velvet Scoter remains so late in Forfar and Fife that it is a 

 question whether they may not sometimes breed there. The Common Scoter is 

 known to do so in Inverness. (Gray's Bds. W. Scot., p. 382. See Scot. Nat., 

 vol. iii., p. 348.) 



177. Goosander has been known several times to breed in Rannoch 

 and on Loch Ericht in Perth. 



179. Smew- — Col. Kinloch of Logie reports a very fine male, in full 

 plumage, shot a year or two ago in the Loch of Forfar, by Sheriff Robertson of 

 Burnside. 



180. "Wood Pigeon arrives every autumn in flocks from Scandinavia, 

 reaching the Fifeshire coasts and thence dispersing inland. A mighty rush of 



