164 BIRDS. 



Bubo ignavus T. Forster. Eagle-Owl. One trapped at Poltalloch, Argyll, 

 on our borders, 3/1882 (Pr. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glas., v. p. 224). 



ORDER ACCIPITRES. 



Fam. Falconidae. 



Circus aeruginosus (Linnaeus). Marsh-Harrier. Recorded for Luss Parish, 

 Dumbarton. (Rev. John Stewart, Stat. Account Scot., 1796.) One 

 trapped, Caldarvan, Dumbarton., 2/7/83 (Lumsden, Nat. Hist, of 

 L. Lomond, etc., p. 41). 



C. cyaneus (Linnaeus). Hen-Harrier. Formerly c. in wild tracts (351 killed 

 on Craiglure and Culzean estates, Ayr., from 1850 to 1854) ; now very r. 

 Arran is the only recent nesting locality reported to me. 



C. cineraceus (Montagu). Montagu's Harrier. Male shot nr. BalJantrae, 

 1836 (Thompson, Birds of Ireland, 1, p. 83) ; one shot, 6/1895, in Avon- 

 dale parish, Lanark. (Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1895, p. 252). 



Buteo vulgaris, Leach. Buzzard. Still not r. in wild tracts, e.g. S. Ayrshire, 

 about L. Lomond and Cowal district of Argyll. 



B. lagopus (Gmelin). Rough-legged Buzzard. An irregular winter visitor. 



Aquila chrysaetus (Linnaeus). Golden Eagle. Formerly bred in S. Ayr- 

 shire, but not for about the past half-century. Nests in Arran at 

 present and probably on confines of Argyll and Dumbarton. 



Haliaetus albicilla (Linnaeus). White-tailed Eagle. Formerly bred in 

 Galloway and on Ailsa Craig. Now quite unknown in " Clyde." 



Accipiter nisus, Linnaeus. Sparrow-Hawk. Not r. in wooded districts. 



Milvus ictinus, Savigny. Kite. Formerly bred in Ayr, Arran, Argyll, 

 and Dumbarton ; was still c. in the last two in first half of nineteenth 

 century. Not known to breed anywhere in the area now. Two 

 stragglers reported from S. Ayrshire within the last dozen years ; one 

 shot and preserved. 



Pernis apivorus (Linnaeus). Honey-Buzzard. Four reported (1) Lanark., 

 autumn, 1831 (Stat. Account, 1841) ; (2 and 3) Ayr., one trapped, 9/1863, 

 one shot, 9/1864 (Gray) ; (4) Renfrew., 1874 (Paisley Nat. Hist. Socy. 

 MS. List). 



Falco candicans, Gmelin. Greenland Falcon. One shot, Lanarkshire, 

 1835 (Gray). 



F. islandus, Gmelin. Iceland Falcon. One trapped, Glendaruel, Argyll, 

 1866 (Gray). 



F. peregrinus, Tunstall. Peregrine Falcon. Not yet very r. ; five or six 

 eyries in Ayr and several in Argyll and Dumbarton. 



F. subbuteo, Linnaeus. Hobby. There are old records of its occurrence in 

 Dumbarton and Arran, which should not be hastily dismissed, as it is 



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known to have nested in Perth, in 1887. I have only seen one Clyde 



example, from Fin try, 6/1894. 

 F. aesalon, Tunstall. Merlin. Very unc. at present owing to unremitting 



persecution. 



F. tinnunculus, Linnaeus. Kestrel. Fairly c. 

 Pandion haliaetus (Linnaeus). Osprey. Formerly nested at L. Enoch 



(Robert Service) ; L. Doon (Gray) ; Inchgalbraith, L. Lomond ; no 



recent authentic evidence of this species in " Clyde." 



ORDER STEGANOPODES. 



Fam. Pelecanidae. 



Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus). Cormorant. C. at all seasons all over 

 F. of Clyde ; has long been reported to nest on Ayrshire coast S. of 

 Ballantrae ; no recent information of it nesting on Ailsa Craig ; appears 

 frequently on inland lochs. 



