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keeper on the flanks of Schiehallion along with a number of Snow 

 Buntings.* 



Hen- Harrier. —Circus cyaneus (Linnaeus). Mentioned in the 

 New Statistical Account of Scotland, 1845, as one of the rare birds 

 in Killin parish. Colonel Drunimond Hay says that, though not 

 uncommon in former years, it is now all but extinct through the 

 incessant persecution of keepers. 



Buzzard. — Buteo vulgaris (Leach). Not so common as in former 

 years. Colonel Drunimond Hay says that even in 1832 they were 

 to be seen in considerable numbers about the Dunkeld grounds. 

 In the Old Statistical Account of Scotland the name " buzzard " is 

 applied indiscriminately to Buzzards and Gleads. 



Rough-legged Buzzard. — Buteo lagopus (Gmelin.) The New 

 Statistical Account, 1845, says that this species is only an occasional 

 visitant in the neighbourhood of Dunkeld, but that in 1840 a great 

 many were seen. Colonel Drummond Hay mentions the fact that 

 as late as the year 1856 he remembers this bird being constantly 

 trapped by the gamekeeper on the Ballyouchan shootings, near 

 Pitlochry, and that then it was far more numerous than the last- 

 named species. Now they are both nearly extinct. 



Greenland Falcon. — Falco candicans, Gmelin. Harting men- 

 tions that a specimen of this bird was obtained at Foss, on 

 Loch Tummel side, in the spring of 1862. 



Peregrine Falcon — Falco peregrinus, Tunstall. Much rarer 

 than they used to be. In the New Statistical Account, 1845, the 

 Peregrine is said to be by no means rare in the parish of Dunkeld, 

 while Colonel Drummond Hay tells me that some years ago it 

 used to nest regularly on the rocks about Craig-y-barns. One was 

 killed at Grand tully not long ago. 



Merlin. — Falco aesalon, Tunstall. As common as the Sparrow- 

 hawk. Two years ago three or four Merlins were caught on a 

 pole-trap on Killiechassie Moor, near Aberfeldy, in a very short 

 time. 



Hobby. — Falco subbuteo, Linnaeus. The Hobby is mentioned 

 in a list of "Birds observed at Rannoch" by Thomas Eadle,f and 

 my friend Mr. J. A. Harvie-Brown tells me that he saw it there 

 in 1874 on two occasions. 



Kestrel. — Falco tinnunculus, Linnaeus. Tolerably abundant. 



* a 



Birds of West of Scotland," p. 39. t Zoologist, 1871, p. 2656. 



