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Title: A fauna of the Tay Basin & Strathmore
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Harvie-Brown, J. A. (John Alexander), 1844-1916
Subjects: Zoology Birds Vertebrates
Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
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As a winter visitor the Tufted Duck has come to the estuariesand fresh-water lochs of Tay, as far as we can ascertain, at least since1879, and I certainly knew of their visits to Forth for a much longertime. A pair from Methven Loch, Perthshire, are labelled 1878.The earliest record I can find is one at Butterstone Loch in 1875(Ibis, 1875, p. 514).1 The Tufted Duck in Scotland, its Increase and Distribntion, by J. A. Harvie- Brown, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S., Map, pp. 20 (Annals Scot. Nat. Hist., Jan. 1896, pp. 111- 120). And a paper with a similar title, pp. 17 (Proc. Royal Phys. Sac. Edin., 1896,vol. xiii. pp. 144-160. Read 18th December 1895). This second paper is an accountof the deductions drawn from the latest accumulation of facts. Some Notes on the Tufted Duck (Fuligula cristata), by W. Evans, F.H.S.E.(Annals Scot. Nat. Hist., 1896, p. 150). This gives additional facts, and is also insome measure critical of the two previous papers. ■J ShetJand Isles , . n60 MilesKEof Orkney , Fair I
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MAP or ^ TO ILLUSTRATE THE DISPERSAL OF THENESTING OF THE TUFTED DUCK Faunal Areas thus , County Boundaries thus j. Ba.rthoiorr,e>. i co ec. DATES = First Records of Breeding i „ j j. n ». ^-X ^Breeding, First Dates unknown . Distribution.North of lat. 56 rare at ail seasons on West Coast.* By 1903 or 1904 the Birds had bred in South Uist. They are now exceedingly abundant all over thelow-lands of Caithness and extreme East of Sutherlanashire. BIRDS. 241 But by the date of 1880, at Loch Leven (Forth), where therewas a record for that same year of 1875, Millais calculated that therewere at least one hundred pairs with young, and they have been inincreasing numbers since then (J. G. M., in lit). Mr. Evans givesmany early accounts from other parts of Scotland, going back in thehistory of the Tufted Duck as a Scottish species, and quotes Don forForfar thus : Anas fuligula, Tufted Duck, in the lakes. Others ofthese earlier records relate to the species both to the north and tothe sou

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