150 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



PASSER MONTANUS (Tree Sparrow). 



Shetland Most, June 13, nest with five eggs found at Halligarth 

 ("Annals," 1903, p. 211). 



FRINGILLA CCELEBS (Chaffinch). 



Shetland '--Most, Aug. 7, a pair seen feeding four young 

 ("Annals," 1903, p. 212). Orkney Pentland Skerries, April 26, 

 a flock of Bramblings and Chaffinches. 



(To be continued?) 



NOTES ON SOME BIRDS OBSERVED IN THE 

 LOCH ARKAIG DISTRICT, WESTERN INVER- 

 NESS-SHIRE. 



By NORMAN BOYD KINNEAR, M.B.O.U. 



THE following notes were made between November 1902 

 and August 1903, and refer to the northern part of the 

 " Argyll " area to the west of Loch Lochy. The boundaries 

 of the district are roughly as follows :- On the east, Loch 

 Lochy and the Lochy river ; on the south, Glen Loy and 

 Streap Hill ; on west, Glen Chaoruinn and the lower part of 

 Glen Dessary ; and on the north the range of hills which 

 form the division between " Argyll " and " Moray." The 

 greater part of the district consists of hills the highest of 

 which is Gulvain, 3224 feet intersected by numerous glens 

 and burns. Stretching eastwards from Glen Dessary is Loch 

 Arkaig, a large loch some fourteen or fifteen miles long by 

 about half a mile wide ; and flowing out of it at the eastern 

 end is the river Arkaig, which, after a course of a mile, enters 

 Loch Lochy. Situated on the right bank of the river, half 

 way between the two lochs, is Achnacarry Castle, the seat of 

 Cameron of Lochiel. Besides a number of burns, two small 

 rivers, the Dessary and Mallie, run into Loch Arkaig, the 

 latter at the western end, and the former at a bay on the 

 south side a few miles from the eastern end. 



