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Maddy (or Maedie ?), the party flushed a female on the 
21st of the same month. Mr. St. John also observed it on 
Loch Laoghal in summer. It has been recorded by Mr. 
Dunbar as breeding near Loch Assynt in the hollow of an 
old larch-tree, but there are now no larch-trees, to our know- 
ledge, on the shores of Loch Assynt, and we have never met 
with the species during eighteen years' experience of the 
west. The golden-eye is a common visitant to the eastern 
districts, frequenting many of the inland lochs and still 
pools in the rivers ; these are, as a rule, young birds and 
females, the older males keeping more to the sea ; they 
remain until quite late in the spring. 
A regular winter visitant, and much better known than the 
three or four preceding species (0. MSS., 1868). It is also 
marked as common in the 1862 List (S. and 0.). 
234. Cosmonetta histrionica (i.). Harlequin Duck. 
[In Dr. Sinclair's collection. 
This bird is not credited by Messrs. ITewton, Gurney, 
and Harting as having occurred here. — Vide Dalgleish on 
North American Birds in Europe {Bull. Nuttcdl Ornith. 
Cluh, vol. V. 1880, p. 214).] 
235. Harelda glacialis (L.). Long-tailed Duck. 
A winter visitant, and very abundant along the coast wherever 
suitable for them. 
Common winter visitant, more especially on the east coast, 
where it is to be found close in to the rocky shores, and in 
the numerous bays and creeks which intersect it (0. MSS., 
1868). 
[Mr. W. Dunbar states that it " breeds in this county," 
and he includes it as a summer visitant. Mr. L. Dunbar does 
not appear to have received any specimens from Caithness, 
but numerous specimens from Orkney on April 1, 1884.] 
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