in Great Britain during the Nesting-season. 67 
Obs.—Both the Bean-Goose (A. segetum, Meyer) and the 
Pink-footed Goose (A. brachyrhynchus, Baill.) have been recorded 
as breeding in Scotland; but Sir W. Jardine informs me that 
in Sutherland the Grey-lag Goose has been mistaken for the 
Bean-Goose, and the more recent observations of the late Mr. J. 
Wolley have conclusively proved that only one species at present 
breeds in the north of Scotland. 
Similarly, in the Outer Hebrides, only the Grey-lag Goose has 
been lately found in the localities where Mr. J. Macgillivray 
believed that he had discovered the breeding-station of the Pink- 
footed Goose. 
The late Mr. Arthur Strickland has described two species of 
Goose as having formerly inhabited the “ carrs” of Yorkshire 
(Ann. & Mag. N. H. 3 ser. ii. pp. 121-124). One of them, 
which he terms Anser paludosus, is apparently identical with 
the Bean-Goose of other authors; but there is no positive 
evidence of the bird having bred in this country, it being a 
species proper to much higher northern latitudes. 
Cyanus Ferus (Leach). Whooper, or Whistling Swan. 
Province [XVIII.]. 
Subprovince (37). 
Lat. 58°-60°. “Scottish” type, formerly. 
In his ‘ Fauna Oreadensis’ (p. 133), Mr. Low remarks of the 
Wild Swan, that ‘A few pairs build in the holms of the Loch 
of Stenness. * * * But the few that build here never increase, 
are always robbed by the country-people.” This observation 
was probably made about eighty years ago, the author having 
died in 1795. Messrs. Baikie and Heddle add, in 1848, that 
“the birds have not been known to build there for many 
years.” 
Mr. J. H. Dunn tells me that old men well remember their 
fathers speaking of having taken several Wild Swans’ nests on 
the small islands in the large loch of Harray, about one hun- 
dred years ago. 
In Ireland the Wild Swan appears to have been formerly 
more numerous, and to have extended further south than in 
Great Britain. 
