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Red-necked Phalarope. Add Subprovince 38 (Shetland). Lat. 56-6i. 

 Scotland only. 



Unst, etc., Shetland (Saxby, " B. of S.," p. 215). 



Exclude Sutherland (Harvie-Brown). Only once seen by 

 St. John. 



Corncrake. Summer visitor. 

 Spotted Crake. 



Baillon's Crake. Not in Scotland. Two nests near Great Yarmouth 

 ("Zool." 1866, p. 389). 



Water-Rail. 



Water-Hen. 



Common Coot. 



Grey-lag Goose. Now in Scotland only. 



Whooper. Not in England. High North (Lapland, etc.). 



(To last paragraph add) : Harris in his "History of Down," 

 1744, p. 234, says: "Great numbers of them breed in the islands 

 of Strangford Lake"; and mentions four islands called Swan 

 Islands. 



Shell-drake. In Scandinavia only in the south of Sweden. 



Shoveller. Erase "Not in Ireland." Add XIII. 26. In Kirkcud- 

 bright, " Zool." 1880, p. 406. Reg. in ii. Annually in Moray (31), 

 (Halting, note). Not found breeding in Scandinavia. 



Gadwall. Not in Scotland. (A few additional localities, all in Norfolk, 

 are mentioned.) 



Never in north of Scandinavia. More common in Denmark. 



Pintail. In Ireland at Abbeyleix, fide Lord Castletown of Upper Ossory. 

 See Sir R. Payne-Gallwey (" Fowler in Ireland," p. 51). 



Common in Lapland only ; high north. 

 Wild Duck. 



Garganey. Not in Scotland. Add Sub -province 10. Breeds every year 

 at Leiston, Suffolk (" Zool." 1874, p. 4036), and the nest has several 

 times been found at Thorpemere, near Aldeburgh (Halting, note). 

 Mr. Sterland reports having found the nest in the Sherwood Forest 

 district. Formerly bred at Prestwick Carr, Northumberland. 

 Southern, and rare in Scandinavia. 



Teal. General in Scandinavia. 



Wigeon. Add Subprovince 31. On a lake in Morayshire (Capt. 

 Dunbar, Harting, note). In last paragraph, for "West Inverness" 

 read "North Uist," and omit following words to end of sentence. 

 Vide Gray (" Birds of West Scotland," p. 375). 



General in Scandinavia. 



Eider Duck. On Islands. At St. Kilda, 1884 (Dixon in " Ibis"). 

 To the high north. 



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