170 TUFTED DUCK 
was shot on a dam at Laxey. On 11th November 1902 
a drake was shot at or near Sulby, and is now in the 
Ramsey Museum. Another specimen, a duck, was obtained 
18th March 1903, probably in the same district, and is 
also in the Ramsey collection. In the winter of 1903-4 
another came into Mr. Adams’s hands. 
The Shoveller breeds here and there in Ireland, as in 
Donegal, Tyrone, and Antrim, but is more numerous in 
winter (it is believed to be increasing in that country). It 
has also bred in Kirkcudbrightshire, but is seemingly not 
common in Galloway. In north-western England it appears 
in small numbers, and has not yet been ascertained to nest, 
but Mr. Oldham tells me it does so commonly in western 
Anglesea. A few specimens have been reported from 
Orkney ; it is not known to have occurred in Shetland and 
seldom in the Outer Hebrides. 
FULIGULA CRISTATA (Leach). TUFTED 
DUCK. 
In 1883 the late Mr. Jeffcott, in some notes contributed 
at a meeting of the Isle of Man Natural History Society, 
mentioned this species as an occasional visitant to Man. 
The only specimen he had seen was in the possession of the 
late Mr. M‘Meiken. 
Mr. W. S. Baily, as recorded by Mr. Kermode, ‘shot a 
fine young drake at Castletown in August 1888.’ Mr. 
Baily writes me that this specimen was killed on the dam 
of Castletown Mill, just outside the town. 
Since 1887, when this species was detected breeding on 
Lochrutton, it has spread to many of the lochs of Galloway, 
