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Mergus serrator, Zinn. RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. 
Resident. Abundant and generally distributed; nesting on 
islands and on the margins both of sea- and fresh-water lochs. 
Quite the most common sea-duck of the district. 
Mergus albellus, Zinn. SMEW. 
A pair, one of which was an old male, seen a few years 
ago by W. Macdonald on a small fresh-water loch on the 
north side of Loch Torridon. 
Columba palumbus, Zinn. RinG Dove. 
Fairly abundant, and, as elsewhere in the Highlands, 
decidedly on the increase. 
Columba livia, Bonnat. Rock Dove. 
Common along the rocky shores of the sea-lochs and outer 
coast, a pair or two breeding in every suitable cave or crevice. 
Columba enas, Zinn. Stock Dove. 
The Rev. E. 8. Marshall writes in the Annals of Scot. 
Nat. Hist., 1894, p. 115, under the heading, “ Stock Dove in 
West Ross”: “It may therefore be worth while to record the 
fact that in late August or early September 1877 I shot a 
specimen close to the shooting lodge of Dorisduan, Kintail, 
West Ross, and frequently saw birds of this species while 
fishing the river Croe. I cannot, of course, speak with any 
confidence upon the question of their having bred thereabouts, 
or immigrated after the nesting season; but the compara- 
tively early time of year, and the tolerable frequency of their 
occurrence, make it quite as likely as not that they had been 
resident through the summer.” 
Phasianus colchicus, Zinn. PHEASANT. 
Introduced in several localities in Dundounnell, Gairloch, 
and Applecross. 
