NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRb. 91 
The American Wigeon, as a genuine visitor to Great 
Britain, can only be regarded as an extremely rare strageler, 
which has been satisfactorily recorded on only some three or 
four occasions. Though individuals were seen in Stirlingshire 
and Fife, in the winter of 1919,)* it must be remembered 
that Sir Richard Graham has bred this species, as well as 
many other rare ducks, full-winged, at Netherby, Cumber- 
land. The occurrence, therefore, of any rare duck in Great 
Britain must nowadays always raise the question as to 
whether it is a genuine visitor from some distant clime or 
whether it did not first see light on one of the Netherby 
ponds or at some other place where exotic wild-fowl are 
allowed to breed full-winged. In view of this, and because I 
cannot be absolutely certain of the identification of this Dum- 
friesshire specimen, I prefer to place this record of the 
American Wigeon within square brackets. | 
The POCHARD (p. 281). This species would appear to 
occur locally every year. A lot of forty to sixty visit a loch 
near Newtonairds (Dunscore) from November to March: in 
1912 they were first seen on October 31st, when nine were 
shot out of some forty. Pochards are also met with annually 
in winter near Kinmount (Cummertrees), as well! as in several 
of the littoral parishes. The species is a common winter 
visitant to Lochmaben where, on t1oth July, 1921, when in 
company with Mr J. H. Gurney, I saw a little party of five 
males and two females on the Castle Loch. 
The TUFTED DUCK (p. 282). A pair of Tufted Ducks 
nested at Auchencrieff Loch (Dumfries) in 1913, and Mr 
Maurice Portal informs me that he saw three young birds on 
Townfoot Loch (Closeburn) on 3rd September, 1920. 
On 4th October, 1920, I shot an immature Tufted Duck 
at the Bobie Loch, Capenoch: this is the first time I have 
killed this species there. A Tufted Duck was seen on Starn 
Loch (Penpont) on 16th April, 1921; and on 28th May, 1921, 
I saw one pair on the Castle Loch, and three males and two 
females on the Kirk Loch (Lochmaben). The species, from 
154 Scottish Naturalist, 1920, pp. 13-14, 55-56, 
