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Volume 9 - Electric Scotland

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MOVEMENTS OF BIRDS IN SCOTLAND DURING 1899 83<br />

Harelda glacialis (Long-tailed Duck), April 29th, none after this;<br />

Oct. 1 4th, eight, first; C. glaudon, Nov. igth, six; (E. nigra, April<br />

29th, none after this. Toy Fordoun, Mareca penelope (Wigeon),<br />

Aug. 28th, at Auchinblae Dam. St. Andrews Bay, S. spectabilis,<br />

June 6th, an adult $ shot ("Annals," 1899, p. 239). Argyll and<br />

Isles Tiree, A. streperus, April 2 yth, numbers, "very late"; S.<br />

clypeata, March 3 1 st, $ and ?<br />

.<br />

Dhuheartach,<br />

S. mollissiwa, Sept. 2 1 st,<br />

first; Skerryvore, Sept. 2ist, a flock, first.<br />

Clyde S. dypeata, April<br />

3rd, two pairs, Lochend Loch ; Dafila acuta (Pintail), Dec. i4th, one<br />

shot in Clyde above Greenock. Solway Long-tailed Duck, ? got in<br />

the autumn ("Annals," 1900, pp. 49-50).<br />

TURTUR COMMUNIS (Turtle Dove).<br />

Caithness June 23rd,

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