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In 1877 I knew of a nest on the banks of the Teith, near 

 Callander, a detailed description of which will be found in 

 my List of the Birds of the Parish of Callander, published in 

 this Society's Proceedings, and in 1878 I have reason to 

 believe that there was at least one nest on one of the lochs in 

 the south-west of Perthshire. 



The Kev. Alexander Stewart, Ballachulish, has informed 

 me that it probably breeds in Mull, and also on Loch Craig- 

 nish, near the northern end of the Crinan Canal. His reasons 

 for thinking so are that he saw an old female goosander and 

 a young bird not many weeks old shot on Loch Sunart, 

 opposite Glenborrodale, in Ardnamurchan, and he has no 

 doubt that it nested on one of the fresh-water lakes or salt- 

 water lochs of the Island of Mull. This was in 1867. In 

 August 1869, Mr Stewart saw a young goosander which Mr 

 Mulholland of the yacht " Hecla " had shot at the mouth of 

 Loch Craignish, and which was believed to have been bred in 

 that immediate neighbourhood. He is also inclined to believe 

 that about twenty-five or thirty years ago goosanders bred on 

 an island on Loch Arcaig, near Lochiel's Castle of Auchnacarry . 

 I have been told that they occur on the Tweed during 

 • summer, but I have been unable to procure any direct 

 evidence of their breeding there. 



There is an egg in the Dunrobin Museum, taken near 

 Tongue, which is reputed to be that of a goosander, and Mr 

 Sim of Aberdeen informs me that he has had what he con- 

 siders to be goosanders' eggs from that locality; but Mr 

 Harvie-Brown, who has paid much attention to the ornitho- 

 logy of Sutherland, does not consider that it occurs in that 

 county during the breeding season. 



In '' Scenes of Animal Life and Character from Nature and 

 Recollection," by Mrs Hugh Blackburn, mention is made of 

 the goosander nesting on an island in Loch Ailort. 



A gamekeeper near Aberfeldy writes to me that he saw 

 this year (1879) a pair of goosanders on Loch Tay, on the 

 20th of May, and although he could not find their nest, it is 

 most probable that they were breeding somewhere in that 

 neighbourhood. 



There can be but little doubt that the goosander has bred 



