The Annals 



of 



Scottish Natural History 



No. 26] 1898 [ ApRIL 



A CONTRIBUTION TO THE AVIFAUNA OF 

 WEST ROSS-SHIRE. 1 



By J. B. BOBBIE, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S. 



WEST ROSS-SHIRE has of late years attracted considerable 

 attention from ornithologists. Mr. J. A. Dixon, in his 

 excellent book on Loch Maree, gives a very full and 

 interesting account of the birds of that district. Messrs. 

 Hinxman and Eagle Clarke contributed to the " Proceedings 

 of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh," vol. xii. 

 part ii., ' A Contribution to the Vertebrate Fauna of West 

 Ross-shire,' which deals mainly with the Applecross, Loch- 

 carron, and Loch Torridon districts, and which is a valuable 

 production. What may be termed a supplementary list to 

 that of Mr. Dixon was contributed to the " Annals of 

 Scottish Natural History" for April 1896, by Mr. A. H. 

 Evans ; and lastly, an account of the birds observed by Mr. 

 Harvie-Brown during a short visit paid by him to Priest 

 Island in July 1884 was published in the "Transactions of 

 the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society." 



The extreme north-west of the county, as it is now 



1 Read at a meeting of the Scottish Natural History Society, Edinburgh, on 

 7th October 1897. 



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