5^^ British Diving Ducks 
Conn, in Mayo, in 1905. Also an egg was taken on Lough Mask, Co. Galway, in 1906 
{Irish Nat, 1907, p. 184). Probably also in Donegal." 
The species is now extremely plentiful in many districts of the west of Ireland, scores 
of birds now breeding in some of the lakes where only a few nested when Messrs. Ussher 
and Warren's book was published. It is probable that in the near future the Tufted Duck 
will spread to every suitable lake in Ireland. 
Europe. — The Tufted Duck is found generally throughout Europe, but may be said to 
breed only in the northern districts. 
Iceland. — A rare species (Sclater, Birds of Iceland). 
Fceroes. — Said to have bred there in 1872 (Collin, Skand. Fugl., p. 671). 
Norway. — It breeds sparingly along the island lakes of the West Coast and in Finmark 
(Collett). Nests in Enare and possibly in South Veranger (Sommerfelt). 
Sweden. — Nests in Smaland, Oland, and Gotland; also north of Mnoriska in Lap- 
land ; Dresser states that it is tolerably abundant in Sweden, breeding in the northern 
districts. 
Finland. — Arrives in April, and Dresser gives numerous localities where it nests, 
principally in the north. 
Russia. — From Russian Lapland S. to 50° N. lat. in Kieff Government ; on the Volga 
to 48° ; in Voromesk, Orenburg, and N. Akmolinsk Governments to the Baltic provinces 
(S. A. Buturlin, quoted by Dresser). 
Denmark. — Breeds rarely (H. Winge). 
Gennany. — Breeds throughout North and Central Germany, but not in the south. 
Common in East Prussia, Holstein, Mecklenburg, Brunswick, Brandenberg, Saxony, and 
Altenberg, also in Pomerania. Naumann has found that it bred in Germany in 1838. 
Speaking of its breeding haunts in Germany, R. Blasius, in the new edition of Naumann, x. 
p. 141, says : — 
"In North and Central Germany they breed at special places, e.£: on some lakes on the east coast of 
Holstein ; on the lakes of Mecklenburg, namely the Schwerin and Krakow lakes ; formerly on the Leba 
lake in Pommern ; on the Dreussen lake at Elbing in E. Prussia, near Thorn ; near Braunschweig on 
the Raffteiche ; in Altenburg on the Frohburg Teich (pool) ; in the Province of Brandenburg on the 
Moeser lake ; and in Havelland near Berlin (according to Hocke, Ornithol. Monatssckrift, vi. 131) ; in the 
kingdom of Saxony on the Moritzburg pools ; but so far it has not been observed breeding in S. 
Germany." 
Holland. — Breeds in small numbers {Ornith. Monatsberichte, 191 1, p. 44). Breeds in 
Brabant (A. van Pelt Leehner). 
Bulgaria. — Breeds in Dobrudscha (Dombrowski) ; observed in June by O. Reiser. 
Herzegovina. — Von Kadich {im Zeichen d. Sckwalbe, p. 97) states that it breeds here ; 
and this is also confirmed by Reiser. 
Montenegro. — Resident throughout the year and probably breeds (Reiser, Orni. Bale., 
iv. p. 140). Von Fiihrer also states that it breeds in Montenegro. 
Bosnia. — There are eggs and young in the Sarajevo Museum (F. C. Jourdain), and 
Reiser states that it breeds in Bosnia. 
Italy. — Arrigoni states that there is no certain evidence of its breeding, though it has 
been said to do so. 
