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now breed on many of the lakes in North Mayo (R. Warren, 

 t.c, 1902, p. 247). Co. Do7iegal.—IlsiS increased very much 

 as a breeding species on Lough Swilly of late years (D. C. 

 Campbell, /.c, 1905, p. 263). 



The Shoveler is evidently increasing, and extending its 

 range, and ornithologists would do well to take most careful 

 notes from year to year of the numbers of these birds 

 w^herever they are nesting, as well as of Pochards, Tufted 

 Ducks, and other increasing species. 



/Sequence of Plumages. — Mr. J. L. Bonhote states that the 

 drakes have an intermediate plumage between that of the 

 " eclipse " and the full breeding plumage. This plumage 

 succeeds the " echpse " in September, and the full plumage 

 is attained gradually during the course of the winter (J. L. 

 Bonhote, Bull. B.O.C., XVI., p. 64). 



PINTAIL Daflla acuta (L.). S. page 429. 



Scotland. — Berwick. — A nest with seven eggs (five hatched 

 out) was found near Hawick on May 17th, 1901 {Ann. S.N.H., 

 1902, p. 133). Selkirk. — A female was flushed from her eggs 

 and watched in the southern part of the county on May 15th, 

 1901 (W. Renton, t.c, 1902, p. 120). Argyll— Four or five 

 \Aere seen (? breeding) on June 4th, 1907, on Loch Tulla 

 (C. H. Alston, t.c, 1908, p. 119). Inverness. — In the British 

 Museum there is a clutch of seven eggs from " Cromlit, 

 Knockie," from the late Edw. Hargitt (F. C. R. Jourdain, in 

 litt.). Outer Hebrides. — Broods were seen in S. Uist in 1902, 

 and the species appears to be increasing as a winter bird in 

 Benbecula (J. A. Harvie-Brown, t.c, 1902, pp. 209-210). 

 Shetland. — A pair with young birds identified June 4th, 1905, 

 at Dunrossness (T. Henderson, Jun., t.c, 1906, p. 53 ; cf. 

 Harvie-Brown, t.c, 1907, 115). 



TEAL Nettion crecca (L.). S. page 431. 



Outer Hebrides. — No ay breeds plentifully in the Uists 

 and Benbecula (N. B. Kinnear and P. H. Bahr, Ann. S.N.H., 

 1907, pp. 213 and 820 ; and J. A. Harvie-Brown, t.c, 1902, 

 p. 209). The first actual record of its nesting on Lewis was 

 made in 1903 {id., t.c, 1903, p. 245). 



GARGANEY Querquedula circia (L.). S. page 435. 



Durham. — Bred at the Teesmouth between 1880-7 (T. H. 

 Nelson, B. of Yorks, p. 457). 



Norfolk. — Nests estimated at two in 1898 in the Broad 

 District (J. H. Gurney, Zool, 1899, p. 115). 



Kent. — Two nests found in Romney Marsh in May, 1900 



