444< Mr. A. G. More on the Distribution of Birds 



Mareca PENELOPE {Selby). Wigeon. 

 Provinces II. IV. ? VIII. ? IX. XVI. ? XVII. XVIII. 

 Subprovinces 6, ii?, 20?, 21, 32?, 34, 35, 37, 38. 

 Lat. 50° or 57°-61°. " Scottish'' type. Perhaps in Ireland. 



The nest has been found in two or three localities in England, 

 but it is only in the north of Scotland that the Wigeon breeds 

 regularly. 



Mr. Borrer, of Cowfold, tells me that the Wigeon breeds occa- 

 sionally on the borders of St. Leonard's Forest, in Sussex. The 

 nest was found by Mr. C. S. A. Dickens in 1854, and a brood 

 was seen again in 1862. 



In their * Catalogue of the Birds of Norfolk,' Messrs. Gurney 

 and Fisher state their belief that the Wigeon " has been occa- 

 sionally known to breed " in that county. 



Mr. J. J. Briggs believes that it breeds occasionally in Derby- 

 shire, having seen young birds, apparently belonging to this 

 species, frequenting the marshy banks of the Trent in August 

 and September. 



Mr. J. F. Brockholes informs me that in the summer of 1863 

 a pair of Wigeons reared their brood at Puddington, in Che- 

 shire, where he often watched them within a distance of a few 

 yards. Mr. Brockholes had previously killed a Wigeon at the 

 same spot, in August 1862. 



Dr. Dewar once found a pair of Wigeons (and shot the male 

 bird), in the last week of June, in West Inverness ; so that it 

 seems probable that the bird breeds in this county. Mr, R. 

 Danford describes the Wigeon as breeding regularly in Ross- 

 shire, and the nest has been found in the counties of Suther- 

 land and Caithness. Colonel Drummond-Hay has found the 

 nest in Orkney ; and Dr. Saxby tells me that the bird breeds 

 occasionally in Shetland, but only in backward seasons. 



SoMATERiA MOLLissiMA [Boie). Eider Duck. 

 Provinces XI. XIV. XVI. XVII. 

 Subprovinces 24, 28, 33, 35-38. 

 Lat. 55°-59°. " Scottish " type. Not in Ireland. 



The Farn Islands and the Bass Rock have long been known 

 as localities. 



