ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM THE TAY DISTRICT 25 



The only previous notice of this bird in Perthshire is one 

 seen many years ago at the head of Loch Tay, near Killin. 



GOLDFINCH IN STRATHTAY. 



This bird's hold in Strathtay (one, if not its last in 

 Perthshire), which Mr. Horn, writing of it about the end of 

 the seventies, found tolerably numerous about Aberfeldy in 

 the summer months, has been carefully watched by me ever 

 since, as to its gradual spread throughout the district ; and, 

 though receiving a somewhat severe check by the pre- 

 meditated robbery of a nest with young birds from the 

 woods above Aberfeldy in the summer of 1889, and the 

 taking of another nest at the foot of Loch Tay in June 

 1892 by a lad who was not aware at the time what kind of 

 nest it was, it was with much satisfaction that I was 

 informed by Atholl MacGregor, Esq., of Eastwood, Dunkeld, 

 that in the winter before last, 1893, he had seen a flock of 

 fifteen of these birds feeding on the banks of the Tay near 

 Dalguise, one of which he shot for identification. I am 

 further glad to find, by the last number of the "Annals," that 

 a pair (which it is to be hoped may be one of many in 

 the district) had been noticed this summer at Ballinluig by 

 Mr. Bruce Campbell, who we trust, though he states his not 

 being fortunate enough to find the nest, would, even if he 

 had, never have had the heart to have taken it ; and it is 

 earnestly to be hoped that these birds will be under the 

 protection of all visitors coming to the district at least for 

 some few years to come, till their re-establishment is secured. 

 I may mention that the nest taken by accident at the foot 

 of Loch Tay in 1892 fortunately fell into the hands of Mr. 

 Duncan Dewar, head keeper at Remmony, whose extensive 

 knowledge of the birds of the district is well known, by 

 whom it was presented, along with two eggs, to the Perthshire 

 Museum a beautifully formed nest of its kind, copiously 

 lined with seed-down of the creeping willow (Saliv repcns], 



RAZORBILLS AND GUILLEMOTS. 



Strange to say, for the season of the year, an extensive 

 invasion of these birds took place both on the Tay and 



