542 ANAS CRECCA. 
ANAS CRECCA, Linneus. 
THE TEAL. 
§ 5549. One.—Iceland, 1837. From Mr. Proctor, through 
Mr. Salmon. 
[Apparently brought from Iceland by Mr. Proctor himself. } 
§ 5550. Zwelve-—Sutherland. From Mr. Bantock, 1850. 
Teal I do not remember seeing in Sutherlandshire, unless at 
Shinness, where I am told they breed.. Ferguson, the gamekeeper 
at Lairg, had their eggs, and Mr. Bantock {of Dunrobin] writes to 
me that he has them. I heard of them too elsewhere; but I did 
not find their eggs. 
§ 5551. Zhree-—Sutherland. From Mr. W. Dunbar, 1851. 
[A fourth in the sale at Mr, Stevens’s rooms, 81 May, 1860, is now in 
Mr. Parkin’s collection.) 
§ 5552. Three.—Loch Ba, Argyllshire, 7 May, 1852. From 
Me P. Robertson. : 
From the Eagle-loch, if not the Eagle-islet [§ 74], and probably 
on the day Mr. Colquhoun tried to shoot the Eagle, for 
Mr. Robertson writes, 9 June, 1852:—‘‘ Mr. Colquhoun came to 
the Loch Ba Sea-Eagle, and I covered him in the island near the 
tree where the nest was. The Eagle came two or three times very 
close to him, but he was always expecting her to hght on the nest. 
But she got his wind and made off, and never returned. So when I 
went to look up what was in the nest, there was the young one 
newly out of the shell and dying with cold, and was quite dead 
before we left the island. So he went away without the Eagle, but 
I believe he will not try it any more, which I will not be sorry for, 
as he scares them away every year, and will not let them take out 
the young.” 
[The ambition of Mr. Colquhoun, author of ‘The Moor and the Loch,’ to 
shoot an Eagle was, I believe, well knowa, and after several attempts I was 
told he succeeded in taking the life of one bird.] 
