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below Callander. When alluding to this pair in his Ornitho- 

 logical Journal for 1878-79/ Harvie-Brown wrote, "It is 

 feared " they " have been shot and are now in Small's shop, 

 Edinburgh." Such has been the fate of many a Goosander 

 and Merganser on our rivers and lochs, for man cannot 

 tolerate any interference with his interests, real or supposed ; 

 and these birds, handsome though they be, feed on fish. 

 Pleas for their protection are therefore apt to fall on deaf 

 ears, and certainly they cannot be allowed to become 

 numerous. 



On the same page of the Journal above mentioned 

 Harvie-Brown wrote : — " Golden-eyes are reported to have 

 bred in a hollow tree in a locality in the south of Perthshire 

 this summer — 1879. The young were taken and an attempt 

 made to rear them, but they all died." This is the Golden- 

 eye record for " Loch Achray in Perth {Jide J. A. Harvie- 

 Brown)" given in Drummond-Hay's " Report on the Ornitho- 

 logy of the East of Scotland from Fife to Aberdeenshire 

 inclusive," published in TJie Scottish Naturalist for 1886. 

 I discussed this record with Harvie-Brown in December 

 1886, and was referred to Hamilton Buchanan, who assured 

 me the birds were Goosanders. It also came to my know- 

 ledge about this time — I believe it was the same keen 

 ornithologist who told me — that a pair of Goosanders nested 

 in the early " eighties " in the hollow of a tree on the banks 

 of the Teith near the Pass of Leny, a few miles above 

 Callander ; and I have reason to think the species has 

 since from time to time bred in the same locality. On 

 2 1st July 1906, Mr K. J. Morton and I had the pleasure 

 of seeing at close quarters a female, followed by six ducklings 

 still in down though probably two to three weeks old, on 

 the Teith immediately above Callander ; and more than 

 once I have observed adult Goosanders in spring on the 

 same river between Callander and Doune, where a duck 

 with her brood was seen at Lanrick Castle by Dr W. Eagle 

 Clarke in the summer of 1916. 



But as has been shown above, the Goosander does not 

 confine itself to the Teith. On ist June 1903 Messrs J. 

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