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nested in the neighbourhood of that loch, as later in the season 
Mr Charles Shaw wrote to tell Mr Macpherson that the birds 
had left when their nest was robbed. There is no further informa- 
tion, as far as we can discover, as to the breeding of the Pintail 
in this area, and naturalists would do well to look out for this 
duck when visiting suitable lochs. 
Moray. 
A winter and spring visitor; has bred. 
Inverness-shive.—In the British Museum there is a clutch of 
seven eggs of the Pintail from Cromlit, Knockie, from the late 
Edward Hargitt (Cat. British Birds Eges in Brit. Mus., vol. ii., 
p- 173), but we have not been able to obtain any particulars as 
to the taking of these eggs. 
Morayshire.—Captain Brander Dunbar has kindly told us that 
Pintail breed, at anyrate occasionally, on Loch Spynie, the eggs 
having been found there “‘ before the War” (zx /#z.). 
The only other record from this area is that in the Scot. WVat., 
1914, p. 45, where Miss Jackson reports having found a Pintail’s 
nest in the vicinity of a small loch in June 1913; the county is 
not mentioned. 
ForTH. 
Winter visitor, and breeds. 
Kinross-shire—One of the few really well-established breeding- 
places of the Pintail in Scotland is that on Loch Leven. The 
first record of its breeding there is that of Mr William Evans in 
1898, when he found several pairs breeding and saw their nests 
and eggs (4.S.V. 47, 1898, p. 162). Before 1906 Millais says that 
about twenty pairs nested there (4 Fauna of the Tay Basin and 
Strathmore, p. 236), and in 1910 we found quite a lot of nests of 
this species when visiting this most interesting loch. 
South Fife-—The only record of the nesting of the Pintail in 
South Fife appears to be from Loch Gelly, where this June (1920) 
we saw several Pintail ducks with broods of small downy young. 
This looks like a spread from Loch Leven. 
TWEED. 
An occasional visitor from autumn to spring. Two breeding 
records. 
Selkirkshire.—In 1go1 the Pintail was discovered breeding in 
two places in Selkirkshire. On the 15th May, in the south of the 
