456 Alexander Goodman More Scientific Papers. 



Mr. H. D. Graham finds the Eider breeding on Colonsay and other 

 islands in Subprovince 33 ; but I do not know of any locality on the 

 mainland of Argyleshire. 



Mr. St. John, in his ' Tour in Sutherland,' mentions some islands 

 at the entrance of the Kyle of Tongue ; and many different observers 

 have met with the nest in the Outer Hebrides, Orkney, and Shetland. 



Obs. Bullock informed Montagu that he had found a nest of Soma- 

 teria spectabilis at Papa Westra, one of the Orkneys, where, according 

 to Messrs. Baikie and Heddle, the King-Duck is now only known as an 

 occasional visitant. 



CEDEMIA NIGRA (Flem.}. Black Scoter. 

 Province XVII. 

 Subprovince 35. 

 Lat. 58-59. " Scottish " type. Not in Ireland. 



Mr. W. Dunbar tells me that the Black Scoter breeds every year in 

 many parts of the moors in Caithness, making its nest in the boggy 

 swamps around the lakes. He has known the eggs taken more than 

 once. 



Mr. R. J. Shearer writes that a " Black Duck" is well known as 

 breeding on one or two lakes in the Thurso district. 



NYROCA FERTNA (Flem.}. Pochard. 



Provinces III. IV. X. 



Subprovinces 8, 9, n, 22, 23. 



Lat. 5P-54 . " English " type. Not in Ireland. 



The nest of the Pochard has been several times found in a limited 

 locality on the borders of the counties of Herts and Buckingham, as I 

 learn from my friend the Rev. H. H. Crewe. 



With regard to Norfolk, the bird, according to Messrs. Gurney and 

 Fisher (Zoologist, p. 1378), "has been occasionally known to breed in 

 the county" a statement confirmed by Mr. Lubbock (p. 113), on Girdle- 

 stone's authority. Mr. A. Newton tells me it has ceased to breed at 

 Scoulton Mere for some years, but that he has reason to suppose there 

 was a nest, in 1850, not very far from that locality. 



Hewitson mentions Hornsea Mere and a piece of water a few miles 

 from Scarborough as breeding localities ; and quite recently the Rev. 

 H. Roundell has found the Pochard breeding in the Craven district of 

 Yorkshire. 



Obs. A female Scaup (Fuligula marila] was once shot by Sir W. 

 Jardine in Sutherland during summer, and hence it has been supposed 

 that this species bred in the north of Scotland. But that gentleman tells 

 me that he considers it was " most probably a wounded bird, or remain- 

 ing by some accident."* Mr. Wolley could not find this species during 

 his excursions in Sutherland. 



* In Mr. Selby's paper on the Birds of Sutherland (Edinb. New. Phil. 



