APPENDIX. -j^c 



Ruddy Sheld-Duck (p. 409). 



The specimen ascribed to Perthshire was obtained in For 

 farshire, though it is in the Perth Museum. In addition 

 to the examples recorded from the Shannon in the 

 summer of 1SS6, one was shot (out of a flock of six) at 

 Kinsale and one (out of three) in the north of co. Cork, 

 about the same time. 



Shoveler (p. 415). 



I intimated that this Duck probably bred in the marshes on 

 the Cumberland side of the Solway, and Messrs. Mac- 

 pherson and Duckworth have subsequently shown this 

 to be the case. 



Scaup Duck (p. 437). 



As regards Mr. A. C. Stark's very positive and detailed 

 account (Pr. R. Phys. Soc. Edin. vii. p. 203) of the 

 breeding of this species on Loch Leven, Mr. W. Evans 

 informs me that he subsequently accompanied Mr. 

 Stark to that spot several times, and they failed to iden- 

 tify a single Scaup ; though Tu/fed Ducks were abun- 

 dant : as they had been for years previously. 



Golden-eye (p. 439). 



The Rev. H. H. Slater has received specimens from Iceland, 

 where Barrow's Golden-eye had previously been con- 

 sidered to be the only representative of the genus 

 C/(h/gu/a. 



TURTLE-DoVE (p. 473). 



Mr. Ussher considers that this species is only found in very 

 small numbers, even in the wooded districts of Ireland. 

 Pallas's Sand-Grouse (p. 475). 



The Rev. H. A. Macpherson has recently published (July 

 1889) an account of the visitation of this species to 

 Scotland in 1888, prepared chiefly from information 

 collected by Professor Newton and Mr. J. A. Harvio- 

 Brown. There is strong evidence that nestlings were 

 found, and at the Meeting of the British Association at 

 Newcastle, on September 12th, Professor Newton ex- 

 hibited a downy chick taken alive in the north-east of 

 Scotland early in August 1889. 

 Pratincole (p. 517). 



The record of an occurrence in Northumberland is an 

 error ; on the other hand, Surrey should be added to 

 the list of counties visited. 



