66 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Wood Sandpiper. — Totanus glareola (Linnaeus). In some " Orni- 

 thological notes from Perthshire," in the Zoologist,* mention is 

 made of this species being found on the moor of Rannoch. 



Redshank. — Totanus calidris (Linnaeus). Common on the Tay. 



Common Sandpiper'. — Actitis hypoleucus (Linnaeus). Very 

 common. 



Curlew Sandpiper. — Tringa subarquata (Guldenstadt). One shot 

 by Mr. Dewar near Loch Tay. 



Woodcock. — Scolopax rusticola, Linnaeus. Remains all the year 

 round, and breeds in most of the woods. It is perhaps worthy of 

 remark that since they began to breed here in any numbers, there 

 has been a marked falling off in the number of birds to be found 

 when beating the woods at the end of the season. 



Common Snipe. — Gallinago gallinaria (0. F. Mtiller). Not very 

 numerous. 



Jack Snipe. — Limnocryptes gallinula (Linnaeus). Nearly as 

 common as the last-mentioned species, and I have shot them on the 

 1 2th of August. 



Red-necked Phalarope. — Phalaropiis hyperboreus (Linnaeus). Col. 

 Drunimond Hay tells me that a rather numerous colony of this 

 bird was known to him to breed annually in a small isolated loch 

 in the Athole district, but, as he has not visited it for some years, 

 he cannot say whether they still frequent the same spot. 



Grey Phalarope. — Phalaropus fulicarius (Linnaeus). Mr. E. T. 

 Booth obtained a single specimen of this species in Glen Lyon, at a 

 distance of forty miles from the sea.f 



Black-winged Stilt. — Himantopus candidus (Bonnaterre). Mr. 

 Don, in his account of the native plants and animals of Forfar- 

 shire, mentions two specimens of this species of Plover which were 

 obtained, one on the mountain of Clova, in Forfarshire, and the 

 other on Ben Lawers, at the north side of Loch Tay. 



Lapwing. — Vanellus cristatus, Meyer. Breeds in large numbers 

 all through the district. 



Golden Plover. — Charadrius pluvialis, Linnaeus. A few to be 

 seen on the moors throughout the summer. 



Dotterel. — Eudromias morinellus (Linnaeus). Rapidly decreasing 

 in numbers. It is still to be found during the breeding season, 

 however, on some of the higher mountains to the north of Loch 



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* Zoologist, 1876, p. 5101. f Cat. Birds in Dyke Road Museum, p. 98. 



