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bird, on two or three different occasions, flying at great speed up the river Clyde, a few feet 

 above the surface of the water, and reaching even the Glasgow Bridge at Brooraielaw. In the 

 Outer Hebrides it occurs but sparingly. I have seen it as early as September, and have likewise 

 procured it from Benbecula, later in the season, in the plumage of the first year." In Shetland, 

 Dr. Saxby writes (B. of Shetl. p. 256), it is " only a rather uncertain winter visitant, arriving at 

 irregular intervals soon after the commencement of autumn, and staying until spring, when the 

 weather is not too severe for it to remain upon the lochs. Should these become frozen, it resorts 

 to the sea-coast, where, however, it will not remain long, taking a final leave of the islands if the 

 frost continues more than a week. It apparently submits to a marine diet simply as a makeshift ; 

 for it eagerly returns to the lochs as soon as the ice begins to disappear. It is never common, 

 but is perhaps somewhat overlooked on account of its mingling with the flocks of Golden-eyes 

 which frequent the larger inland waters. Sometimes a single individual is the sole occupant of 

 a retired inland loch for weeks at a time. All that I have examined have had insects or larva? 

 in the stomach ; but twice I have discovered fish-spawn in considerable quantities." 



It has lately been found breeding in Scotland by Mr. A. B. Brooke, who, in a letter from 

 Cardney, Dunkeld, N.B., to 'The Ibis' (Ibis, 1875, p. 514), writes as follows: — "Finding only, 

 as far as I can discover, one well-authenticated instance of the Tufted Duck (Fuligula cristata) 

 breeding in Great Britain (Yarrell, 3rd ed. vol. iii. p. 354), it will, I am sure, interest many to 

 know that last week I saw two fine broods, eight young birds in each, on Butterston Loch, one 

 of the three lochs so well known in this neighbourhood. They were just newly hatched ; and 

 their diving was so incessant that it was some time before I could count them. For the last two 

 seasons I have suspected them of breeding here, having seen the old birds late on in the summer. 

 There are several other pairs of these Ducks on the loch now ; and I have no doubt most of them 

 are breeding. The lochs are, and most likely always will be, strictly preserved ; so I have no 

 hesitation in making known the breeding-place of one of our rarer summer visitors." 



In Ireland it is a tolerably common winter visitant, and is said to be the latest of the 

 Fuligulce arriving at Belfast Bay — as an experienced fowler informed Mr. Thompson, " even 

 the month of December, in which he killed the first birds seen by him there in 1839 and 1840, 

 being considered early. On fresh water, to which these Ducks are partial, they appear earlier ,- 

 in the middle of November I have observed them on Ballydrain Lake, and have received speci- 

 mens from Lough Neagh, among which were adult males as well as young birds. They have 

 frequently been brought to me from the latter locality from this period until April, December 

 and January being the months in which they were chiefly procured. But I have known them to 

 remain there until May, on the 4th of which I saw one in 1850." 



In Iceland the present species does not occur, nor does it seem to have been met with in 

 Greenland. Professor Bernhardt includes it on the authority of Dr. Walker, who stated that it 

 was obtained at Goclhavn during the 'Fox' expedition in 1857; but Dr. Walker subsequently 

 (Ibis, 1861, p. 198) withdrew this species from his list. Neither Captain Feilden nor Mr. H. C. 

 Muller include it in their lists of the Birds of the Fseroes ; but, according to Mr. Collin (Skand. 

 Fugl. p. 671), it was found breeding there in June 1872. Mr. Collett says that it breeds here 

 and there both in the extreme north and in the south of Norway, but is nowhere numerous. It 

 visits the southern and western coasts on passage. Sommerfelt states that it nests in Enare, and 

 possibly in South Varanger. 



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