BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
THE LONG-TAILED DUCK. 
Hardda glacialis (Linnaeus). 
Local name — Calloo. 
An occasional winter-visitor to our shores. 
William Hastings in recording a Long-tailed Duck shot at 
the mouth of the Lochar and sent to him durmg the wmter 
of 1879-1880 for preservation, states " that it is an 
extremely rare species on that part of ^''X^'Z 
having previously come into my hands."* Mr J^Harkness 
trites'me that he shot a female in 1885 on the B ackshaw 
Bank. During the autumn and early wmter of 1887 there 
was quite a "visitation" of this species to the Enghsh 
shores; and a small flock which came far up *e SoW 
Firth mostly perished in the cause of science, l^s, W. 
Duckworth wrLs from Carlisle to Mr. R Service that three 
Long-tailed Ducks had been obtained m Dumfriesshire 
watL about October 17th. Later he sent to Mr. Service 
two Long-tailed Ducks shot near Gretna, which he bought 
in CarUsle market on November 15th. They were the first 
he had seen since his previous commumcation. These biras, 
a male and female, were shot off Dornock, and Mr. Service 
writes me that " one of them had eighty-six speckled goby 
iGoUus minutus) in its guUet and a large, partiaUy-digested 
mass of the same fish in its stomach." H. A Macpherson 
notes that the birds shot on the Solway m 1887 P'^oved on 
dissection, to have dieted almost e^-^l^^' ^/?°''Mt'^mber 
Two out of three seen off Borron Point m November 
1896 were shot and preserved by Mr. McCall of Carsethorn,t 
and these specimens are here recorded, though they may 
• Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Qlasg., 1880, Vol. IV., pp. 323, 324. 
t Fauna of Lakeland, 1892, p. 300. 
% Dumjriea Courier and Herald, November 24th, 1896. 
