The Distribution of Birds in Great Britain. 453 



extinct in Westmoreland. It still breeds in the counties of Ross {Mr. 

 W. Dunbar], Sutherland, and Caithness, and in the Outer Hebrides. 



Obs. Both the Bean-Goose (A . segetum, Meyer) and the Pink- 

 footed Goose (A. brachyrhynchus, Baill.) have been recorded as 

 breeding in Scotland: but SirW. 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. iii. pp. 121-124). One of them, which he terms Anser 

 fialudosus, 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. 



CYGNUS FERUS (Leach}. Whooper, or Whistling Swan. 



Province [XVIII.]. 



Subprovince (37). 



Lat. 58-60. " Scottish " type, formerly. 



In his ' Fauna Orcadensis ' (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. Baikieand 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 hundred years ago. 



In Ireland the Wild Swan appears to have been formerly more 

 numerous, and to have extended further south than in Great Britain. 



TADORNA VULPANSER (Linn.}. Shell-drake. 



Provinces I .-IV. VI.-XVIII. 



Subprovinces 2, 3, (4), (7), (10), n, 17-19, 21, 22, 24-26, 28, 30-38. 



Lat. 50 or 51-61. " British " (or " Scottish ") type. 



Scarce in the south of England, and reported as extinct in Dorset, 

 Kent, and Suffolk ; but still breeds in North Devon, Somerset, and Nor- 

 folk, in the last of which counties it is described as decreasing. 



SPATULA CLYPEATA (Bate). Shoveller. 



Provinces II. -V. X. XI. XIV.-XVI. 



Subprovinces 4, (7), n, 15, 22, 24, 2*8, 31, 32. 



Lat. 50-58. " British " (or " English ") type. Not in Ireland. 



