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Bedfordshire. — Now known to breed regularly in several 

 places (id.). 



Kent. — A brood of nine young, with the parents, seen in 

 Romney Marsh May 19th, 1900 (N.F.T., ZooL, 1900, p. 279). 

 During the last seven years the birds in this locahty have 

 increased, and nests have been found every year (N.F.T.). 

 In the north of the county it breeds numerously in the 

 marshes of the Thames Estuary, cf. Mr. Hepburn's article 

 {Zool, 1907, pp. 52 et seq.). 



Hampshire. — Increasing as a breeding species, especially 

 in the valley of the Avon (J. E. Kelsall and P. W. Munn, 

 B. of Hants., p. 232). 



Devon. — A pair reared their young at Braunton, in 1904 

 (J. Cummings, ZooL, 1905, p. 112). A pair said to have bred 

 in North Devon for the past three years (B. F. Cummings, 

 t.c, 1907, p. 22). 



Shropshire. — At least one pair nested and reared a brood 

 on the marshes at Minsterley in 1907 (H. E. Forrest, Caradoc 

 F. Club Rep., 1908, p. 30). 



The Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain informs us that he knows that 

 it has bred also in the following counties not mentioned in 

 the "Manual," Dorset, Sussex, Cambridgeshire (locally 

 common) and Lancashire. 



North Wales. — It breeds regularly in some numbers in 

 Anglesey, and a pair nested in 1896 at Llyn Mynyddlod, in 

 Merioneth (H. E. Forrest, Vert. Fauna N. Wales, p. 278). 



Scotland. — It nests not infrequently on the borders of 

 Northumberland, especially on the Scottish side (A. Chapman, 

 Bird-Life Borders, p. 97). East Lothian. — Although nesting, 

 is by no means a common bird (H. D. Simpson, ZooL, 

 1904, p. 459). Tay Basin. — Still increasing. Becoming very 

 generally distributed in suitable situations on the shallower 

 and reedier lochs of the east (J. A. Harvie-Brown, Fauna 

 Tay Basin, etc., p. 233). Sutherland.— Colonel Duthie found 

 a nest, and saw three or four birds on Loch Canna, Assynt, 

 in the west of the county {id.. Fauna N. W. Highlands, etc., 

 p. 231). Outer Hebrides. — Bred on South Uist (first time 

 recorded) in 1903 {id. op. ciL, p. 237). Nest found, and several 

 pairs seen in 1906 (N. B. Kinnear, Ann. S.N.H., 1907, p. 82), 

 and in 1907 " still on the increase," and two nests found 

 (P. H. Bahr, t.c, 1907, p. 213). 



Ireland. — Co. Antrim. — Two nests taken in May, 1901, 

 near Belfast, were first recorded as being those of the Wigeon, 

 but were afterwards proved by Mr. Heatley Noble to be 

 Shovelers' (R. Patterson, Irish Nat., 1901, p. 147, and 1903, 

 p. 275). Co. Jfa^/o.— Although scarce a few years ago they 



