The Distribution of Birds in Great Britain. 457 



FULIGULA CRISTATA (Steph.}. Tufted Duck. 



Provinces II. V. VIII. X. XL 

 Subprovinces 6, 15, 20, 23, 24. 

 Lat. 50-56. " English " type. Not in Ireland. 



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Mr. Borrer tells me that a brood of Tufted Ducks was found near 

 Horsham in May, 1853, and another at West Grinstead in 1854. 



Mr. W. H. Slaney writes that the bird is common on the large meres 

 of Stafford and Shropshire, and that he has known of one nest in the 

 latter county. 



Sir William Milner and Mr. A. Newton have recorded the occurrence 

 of several nests in Nottinghamshire (Zoologist, p. 4440; Trans. Tyneside 

 Nat. Club, vol. v. p. 40). 



In the ' Zoologist' (p. 2879), mention is made of a brood observed on 

 Malham Water, in the West Riding of Yorkshire ; and Mr. Hancock 

 describes the bird as breeding occasionally in Northumberland (Trans. 

 Tyneside Nat. Club, ut supra]. 



Obs. In 1848 two eggs were given to the late Mr. John Wolley in 

 Shetland as those of the "Calloo Duck" (the local name for Harelda 

 glacialis], with a positive assurance that they had been taken on a low 

 holm in that group of islands. So far as can be determined from their 

 appearance, there is nothing to cast a doubt on the accuracy of the 

 information ; and as it came from respectable and disinterested persons, 

 that gentleman believed it. I am, however, not aware of any corrobo- 

 ration of the statement, and the breeding of the Long-tailed Duck in 

 Shetland is probably a rare occurrence. 



Clangula glaucion. Mr. W. Dunbar informs me that the Golden- 

 eye has been once known to breed in Sutherland, a nest with the young 

 birds having been found by a shepherd in the hollow of an old larch-tree 

 on Loch Assynt ; and Mr. Dunbar suggests that one of the parents must 

 have been disabled and unable to migrate. 



MERGUS SERRATOR (Linn.}. Red-breasted Merganser. 



Provinces XVI. XVII. XVIII. 



Subprovinces 32-38. 



Lat. 55-61. "Scottish" type, or northern. 



In several localities on the west coast of Scotland, extending from 

 Islay to Shetland ; but I have no authority for its breeding on the east 

 side of Scotland, though Macgillivray tells us that it is found in summer 

 as far south as the Moray Firth. 



Journ. vol. xx. p. 293), it is stated that this bird "was attended by a young 

 one, which unfortunately escaped among the reeds ; " but in the note with 

 which I have been favoured by Sir William Jardine, he says nothing about 

 the latter, merely mentioning that the old female he shot is now in his col- 

 lection. 



