The Annals 



of 



Scottish Natural History 



NO. 24] 1897 [OCTOBER 



THE BIRDS OF CARMICHAEL PARISH, WITH 

 NOTES ON RARER SPECIES IN THE UPPER 

 WARD OF LANARKSHIRE. 



By Rev. JAMES D. W. GIBSON, B.D. 



THE Parish of Carmichael l may be roughly outlined as the 

 tract of country bounded on the N.W. by the Clyde and 

 Douglas Water, which each after a course of about three 

 miles along the north-west border the former in a south- 

 westerly, the latter in a north-easterly direction meet to 

 flow towards the N.W. ; on the S.W., S., and S.E., by the 

 range of Tinto, circling round as a natural background ; and 

 on the N.E. by the Carlisle Road. " The surface of the 

 parish presents a very unequal and diversified aspect, the 

 mountain range of Tinto looking down from a commanding 

 elevation" (cairn on top is 2335 feet above the sea-level) "upon 

 several hills and valleys which lie at its base, and sending 

 many tributary streams " (Cleuch, Carmichael, Drumalbin, 

 and Ponfeigh Burns) " to the Clyde and Douglas Water." 

 Between Tinto and the Clyde and Douglas Water two 

 distinct ranges of hills may be traced running parallel with 

 these rivers, but the continuity of each range is broken by 



1 The Parish of Carmichael is contained on the Ordnance Survey Map No. 23. 

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