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"paidling about i' the mud at nicht, deil tak' them." The carse land 

 west of Stirling is visited by them also in great numbers. 



Bemicle Goose. — The bernicle at one time was a numerous species 

 in our low grounds, but, doubtless owing to its not being so wild a 

 species as the last, from different causes — amongst these, punt-guns — 

 it is not now so numerous. Visits Loch Lomond. 



Brent Goose. — Also visits Loch Lomond, and is tolerably common 

 on the Firth of Forth. The Edinburgh markets seem to be well supplied 

 with them. 



Egyptian Goose. — The Rev. F. O. Morris, in his work on 'British 

 Birds' (vol. v. p. 103), mentions the fact of three specimens of this 

 rare bird having been killed at Campsil in November, 1832. One 

 out of a flock of five was shot on Loch Lomond, in 1861, and exhibited 

 at a meeting of the Natural History Society of Glasgow, by Dr. Dewar 

 {Mr. R. Gray). 



Hooper. — The wild swan visits Loch Lomond in considerable 

 numbers some winters. Mr. Thompson tells me that he has killed one 

 on the Forth below Dunmore. He writes as follows : " Hoopers are often 

 seen here; one was shot last winter about the Inch, above Alloa: I 

 shot one a great many years ago. There were some this winter (1867), 

 but I could not get a shot." 



Bewick's Swan. — Mr. J. Colquhoun tells me that his brother shot 

 one out of a flock of five on Loch Lomond in the winter of 1860-61, 

 and I believe they are frequently seen upon the loch. 



Mute Swan. — Large numbers of the mute swan are bred and fed on 

 the Carron Dams, a large sheet of water near the works ; also on many 

 gentlemen's pieces of ornamental water, and large numbers on Loch 

 Lomond, the property of Sir James Colquhoun. Those on Carron 

 Dams often take short flights up the river. 



Black Swan. — During the very severe winter of 1828-29 some black 

 swans (?) appeared on Loch Lomond, and one was shot, as com- 

 municated by Mr. J. Colquhoun. 



Shieldrake. — Not a common species, but is not unfrequently shot at 

 the coast. Captain Spiers informs me that he has half-tame ones on 

 his pond at Culcreuch, and that a year or two since he had a hybrid 

 between a shielduck and a common one. 



Shoveller. — •Mr. J. Colquhoun has seen and shot the shoveller on 

 Loch Lomond in severe winters. Mr. Samuel Singer, of Kincardine, 

 who, having used a punt-gun there since 1851, has only on two 

 occasions shot the shoveller on the Firth of Forth. 



