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stray Scaup-Duck (Fuligula marila) must have come from an ornamental 
water. It is just possible that, as in the case of the Teal, the breeding 
range of this species may be creeping further southward. I am not aware 
that the Scaup has been known to breed even so far south as the Stewartry 
of Kirkcudbright; yet on May 25th, 1892, I saw a pair of these birds 
frequenting Jordieland Loch, a sheet of water on the moors about five miles 
from the town of Kirkcudbright. I need hardly repeat from my notes that : 
* The male had a black neck and breast, the upper parts of the body also 
being dark, the under parts white. The female was similarly marked, but 
dusky. Their cry was hoarse compared with that of the Mallard.” 
Looking to the season at which I saw these birds—at the time a female 
Mallard had her young, little puffs of down, in the water in another part of 
the loch—I think that the Scaup may: have bred either there or in the 
vicinity, although unfortunately I could not certify this. The Teal breeds 
in fair numbers in that part of the country; the numbers to be seen in 
winter do not all remain to breed, but I think these are on the increase. 
It is not improbable that the same climatic tendency that keeps the Teal 
may ultimately keep the Scaup.—J. W. Payne (Edinburgh). | 
Occurrence of the Fork-tailed Petrel on the Yorkshire Coast.— 
I have a fine example of this Petrel (Cymochorea leucorrhoa Vieill.), taken 
on the beach at Filey on March 26th of this year, after some heavy 
westerly gales. This bird has been set up with the wings expanded, and 
the light smoky grey of the upper wing-coverts is very conspicuous. Both 
this and the closely allied Ridgway’s Petrel (Oceanodroma cryptoleucura) of 
the Canary Seas are figured in Lord Lilford’s ‘ Illustrations.’ In the latter 
the tail is not deeply forked, but nearly square. The upper tail-coverts are 
described (‘ Ibis,’ 1897, p. 54) as white tipped with black; this feature, 
however, is probably common to both, as my Filey bird has the tips of the 
white upper tail-coverts and the shafts of the same very dark. — JoHN 
CorDEAux (Great Cotes House, R.S.O., Lincoln). 
Bird Notes from the Northern Cairngorms.—The following account 
of some of the birds which are to be found near Aviemore, Inverness-shire, 
is the result of a few rough notes made by myself this summer (June 24th— 
July 7th) during a holiday spent in the district with three fellow-tourists. 
We made Coylum Bridge our headquarters, from whence we explored the 
forests of Rothiemurchus and Glenmore, and the northern slopes of the 
Cairngorm Mountains. Our first expedition was to Lochan Hileau, where 
we hoped to see the Ospreys (Pandion haliaétus), a pair of which are said 
to have nested on a ruined castle in the loch, with varying intervals, for the 
last century. We were much disappointed to find the eyrie deserted, but 
on enquiry were told that a pair had arrived as usual in May. Soon after 
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