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here I would hazard the opinion that while the 

 former is a hybrid, the latter is not a good species, 

 having been founded apparently upon small specimens 

 of the well-known Scaup, an inhabitant of both 

 Nearctic and Palsearctic regions*. 



TUFTED DUCK. Fuligula cristata (Leach). 



A winter visitant; but several instances are on 

 record of its having remained to breed in England f . 



GOLDEN-EYE. Clangula glaucion (Linnaeus). 



A winter visitant. Has been once known to breed in 

 Sutherlandshire, a nest with young birds having been 

 found by a shepherd in the hollow of an old larch tree 

 on Loch Assynt. 



LONG-TAILED DUCK. Harelda gladalis (Linnaeus). 



A winter visitant. From information supplied to 

 the late Mr. John Wolley, it seems possible that this 

 Duck may occasionally remain to nest in Shetland. 



COMMON SCOTEE. (Edemia nigra (Linnaeus). 



A winter visitant, occasionally remaining till late in 

 summer, and said to have nested in Caithness and 

 InvernessshireJ. 



* See Baird, Birds N. Amer. p. 791, and Swainson, Faun. Bor.- 

 Amer. (Birds), p. 453. 



t See < The Ibis,' 1865, p. 446. 



t Gray, < Birds of the West of Scotland/ p. 382. 



