38 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 
numbers in the breeding-places abroad so little known, that 
we prefer to leave our readers to draw their own conclusions, 
offering only very tentative suggestions as to the origin of 
our Scottish breeding-birds. 
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST. 
1889. Dhu Loch, Glendale, Skye (4 fauna of the North-west 
Highlands and Skye, p. 232). 
1898. Loch Leven (4.S.V.Z@., 1898, p. 162). 
1go1. Southern Selkirkshire (two places) (4 S.V.Z., 1902, p. 120). 
1g02. South Uist (4.S.W.Z., 1902, p. 210). 
1905. Dunrossness, Shetland (4.S.4V.Z., 1906, p. 53). 
1906. Loch Leven (about twenty pairs) (4 Fauna of the Tay Basin 
and Strathmore, p. 236). 
1908 (before). Orkney (British Lirds (mag.), vol. ii., p. 21). 
1908. Increasing, Shetland (4.8.4.4, 1908, p. 184). 
1910. Increasing, Orkney (British Birds (mag.), vol. iv., p. 221). 
1913. Moray area (Sco¢. (Vat., 1914, p. 45). 
1914 (before). Loch Spynie, Morayshire (Captain Brander Dunbar, 
in Uitt.). 
1920. Loch Gelly, Fife (E. V. B. and L. J. R.). 
Date wanted:—Eggs taken Cromlit, Knockie, Inverness-shire, 
in British Museum (Cat. British Birds Eggs in Brit. Mus., vol. it, 
Pp. 173) 
SHETLAND. 
Occasional winter visitor, and breeds. 
Mr Robert Dunn, writing in 1837, says: ‘‘I have never met 
with this bird in Shetland” Gaede gis?s Gutde to Orkney and 
Shetland, p. 93);.and in Saxby’s Birds of Shetland, published in 
1874, p. 237, he says: ‘‘A few small parties, seldom numbering more 
than half a dozen, visit us in spring; but, so far as I have been 
able to learn, the bird is never seen in Shetland either in autumn 
or winter. Its appearance seems to be due more to the force of 
circumstances than to choice. I cannot find among my notes more 
than one instance of its occurrence in fine weather; so deep, 
indeed, has become my impression as to this, that the Pintail is 
always associated in my imagination with storms of driving sleet or 
snow, and the surface of a loch torn into spray.” 
Buckley and Evans, in their Fauna of the Shetland Islands, 
p- 134, give no further records of the Pintail there till June 1897, 
when a pair were seen on Loch Spiggie, and two pairs at the same 
